Humpback and southern right whales migrate along Australia's east coast each year, passing Sydney as they head north away from Antarctica for the coldest months of June and July. They return south ...

A collision with an ocean vessel may have been what killed a humpback whale that washed ashore in Huntington Beach last week, according to officials with the Pacific Marine Mammal Center.

"We did a very meticulous deep dive into humpback whale song," said Jenny Allen, a researcher in whale behaviour at Griffith University in Australia and the University of St Andrews in Scotland.

Now, an international, interdisciplinary team of scientists has found that the intricate songs of humpback whales, which can spread rapidly from one population to another, follow the same rule ...

The advisory follows a recent incident on January 6, when a humpback whale was reported entangled in crab gear, and comes after a record high of four whale entanglements in Oregon crab gear in 2024.

Rescuers have freed a humpback whale that was caught up in a rope at a fish farm off the Isle of Skye. The mammal was spotted by a member of the public being in difficulty at the Invertote salmon ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) says trained responders freed two humpback whales tangled in gear last week. Both happened off the coast of ...