Humpback whales are already known for complex songs, acoustic variety, and cooperative social structures. But the idea that they may initiate communication with humans voluntarily opens up a new ...

To get a glimpse of how whales communicate, the new study explored 12 bubble ring production episodes that were obtained by citizen scientists and researchers. These events involved 39 bubble rings ...

A team of scientists from the SETI Institute and the University of California at Davis has documented, for the first time, humpback whales producing large bubble rings, like a human smoker blowing ...

Hello Humpback is a new website that allows users to upload their whale watching photos to help track humpback whales off the coast of Newfoundland and reveal part of their stories.

Humpback Whales Can’t See as Well as Scientists Thought, and It Might Explain Why They Keep Getting Tangled in Fishing Gear Despite having big eyes, the whales can’t make out details of ...

Whale researchers combined modern-day sightings with 19 th century records and are revealing new information about when and where humpback whales give birth along a busy “humpback highway” off ...

Humpback whales can give birth while migrating thousands of miles Hundreds of calves have been born outside known breeding grounds near Australia. By Laura Baisas Published May 20, 2025 12:00 AM EDT ...

To understand humpback vision, Mr. Bolin and his team dissected the eye of a juvenile humpback whale that died on a North Carolina beach in 2011. While most whales that wash ashore have been dead ...

Humpback whales are now migrating north to their warmer breeding waters — but some of them will give birth as far south as Tasmania, according to new research based on observations from citizen ...

FWC has a hotline to report right whale sightings, which can also be used to report humpback sightings. That numbers is 1-877-942-5343, or 1-877-WHALE-HELP.

There was another dead humpback whale that was spotted floating off the Virginia Beach coast in February 2023. “On the average, four to five humpback whales strand a year along the South ...

Humpback Whale Swallows Kayaker Before Spitting Him Out in Viral Video A kayaker named Adrián Simancas was swallowed by a humpback whale while off the coast of Chilean Patagonia before ...