Learn about one of the ocean's most iconic and captivating creatures in the world, the humpback whale. Read more on the blog.

A total of 429 volunteers gathered data from the shores of Kaua‘i, O‘ahu, Molokaʻi and Hawai‘i islands during the Hawaiian ...

A young male humpback whale has been spotted fraternizing with females in two different groups located on opposite sides of the world, with a record-breaking journey of more than 13,000 kilometers ...

The animals’ complex songs share structural patterns with human language that may make them easier for whales to learn, a new ...

On the islands of Kaua‘i, O‘ahu, Molokaʻi and Hawai‘i, volunteers collected data from 30 sites. A total of 183 whales were observed between 10 and 10:15 a.m. On Maui and Lānaʻi, volunteers collected ...

The sounds that make up humpback whale songs follow some of the same statistical rules seen in human languages, which may be because of how they are learned ...

Despite humans and whales being separated by ... such as human language—and the songs of humpback whales—easier to learn. “It strengthens the view that we should be thinking about human ...

A collision with an ocean vessel may have been what killed a humpback whale that washed ashore in ... The body of the 26-foot long, 2- to 3-year-old female was initially spotted at the site ...