The foraging strategy may help humpbacks be more resilient to food scarcity, emphasizing the importance of preserving their ...

Not long ago, spotting a humpback whale in Arctic seas felt like winning a lottery ticket. In the early 2000s, University of Southern Denmark whale researcher Olga Filatova spent years searching ...

The new animated short film "Whale 52" is inspired by two true stories. The first involves the titular aquatic mammal, commonly known as the planet's loneliest whale as it traverses the oceans calling ...

Some of the largest living animals on the planet eat the tiniest food. For humpback whales, it's krill – small shrimp-like animals floating in the ocean. Capturing enough krill can take a lot of work, ...

Whales are mighty. Blue whales, for example, aren’t only the largest animal on Earth, but as far as we know, they’re the ...

A pair of adult female right whales, Koala and Curlew, have mystified researchers this winter as they cruised south along the Florida coast, then made a surprise appearance this week off Alabama’s ...

With the rapid melting of Arctic ice, the waters have opened up to more human traffic, which is disturbing the underwater ...