Monterey Bay is seeing an increase in humpback whales, driven by plentiful anchovies and favorable weather conditions, ...

Wildlife experts are attempting to rescue a humpback whale found tangled in a commercial fishing net off the coast of Los Angeles on Thursday. The entangled whale was first spotted and reported in ...

Humpback whales are famous for long migrations, but one isolated population stays in the Arabian Sea year-round.

Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) are known for one of the longest migrations of any mammal. However, not all of them ...

The humpback whale captured on video breaching in the Sacramento River near Rio Vista last week is headed west in the Delta toward San Francisco Bay, according to the Marine Mammal Center. The Marine ...

Researchers observed a humpback whale mother staying beside her presumed stillborn calf for hours and possibly days off Australia’s Gold Coast. She maintained eye contact and remained close to the ...

The humpback was first seen in SF Bay on Tuesday, the Marine Mammal Center said in a news release. Although its sex is unknown, it is a “well-known” whale in the area, the Mar ...

ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) — Denny Glover was hoping for a big catch when he went fishing with buddies on the Sacramento River, but he wasn’t expecting a fully grown humpback whale. Glover saw the whale ...

“It is extremely rare to witness,” said a marine biologist, who co-authored the new report containing the rare footage Dr. Olaf Meynecke Researchers captured rare footage of a humpback whale mother ...

It was a tragic sight. One day last July, a newborn humpback whale calf lay motionless on the seafloor, just a kilometre off Australia’s Gold Coast. The encounter was captured through underwater video ...

A female humpback whale has been documented apparently grieving a stillborn calf in new research released Wednesday, offering rare insights into the complex emotions of the sea-dwelling mammals. The ...