Humpback whales off the west coast of Canada have learned a cooperative hunting technique from whales migrating into the area, and this cultural knowledge may help the population cope as food becomes ...

Humpback whales are teaching each other a feeding technique called bubble netting, and it's helping a Canadian population recover from whaling.

Humpback whales sometimes use this very intricate, very cool strategy to catch fish. It is called bubble-net feeding. As NPR's Nate Rott reports, a new study suggests the whales are teaching each ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A humpback whale known as Kараул (Watchtower) produced this bubble ring in Hawaii in 2020. Researchers at the University of ...

While the “smart” animal club has been steadily adding new members, the world’s whales can be considered among the founders. The roughly 50 million-year-old animal lineage shows evidence of their own ...

A new study reveals that nearly half of the humpback whales frequenting Gitga’at territorial waters now use a complex group ...

An amazing sight off the New England coast this week: A pod of “bubble net feeding” humpback whales.The New England Aquarium said an aerial survey team spotted the pod of whales feeding off Martha’s ...

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, ...