"When I turned around, I felt on my face like a slimy texture; I saw colors like dark blue, white, something approaching from ...

A humpback whale briefly scooped a kayaker in Chile into its mouth in an incident straight out of the biblical book of Jonah.

On the other hand, humpback whale song could be comparable to human music, which also lacks semantic meaning while still adhering to Zipf’s law. But that doesn’t make the study less exciting.

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 ...

A Chilean man was given the scare of a lifetime when he briefly ended up in the mouth of a humpback whale while kayaking off Chilean Patagonia, reports say. The father of Adrián Simancas was recording ...

Whale song is something we humans listen to when relaxing – but new research has shown that, as a form of communication, it ain't messing around. A new study has found that certain whale species ...

Humpback whale song is a striking example of a complex, culturally transmitted behavior, but up to now, there was little evidence it has language-like structure. Human language, which is also ...

Sightings of humpback whales cruising the British coast are rising – and causing debate amongst conservationists researching the cause He’s been leading wildlife expeditions along the North ...

Over the last few weeks, multiple sightings of the magnificent humpback whale have been reported by ... “changing water temperature and currents could impact the timing of environmental cues ...

TWO fishermen have rescued a humpback whale which was entangled in rope off the coast of Skye. The pair of creel fishermen were fishing in the southern area off the coast of the Scottish island when ...

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 ...

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.