Humpback whales are becoming entangled in shark nets off the coast of Australia, highlighting the threats these nets pose. Around Queensland and New South Wales, humpback whales are being accidentally ...

Research published earlier in 2025 found that whales sing less when food is scarce. Using underwater microphones, or hydrophones, an interdisciplinary team of researchers recorded the songs of blue ...

Due to its vast size — stretching from Canada and Greenland in the north, to Mexico in the south — North America contains a ...

Remora species like the whale sucker ( Remora australis) aren’t picky eaters either. When sea lice and other parasites aren’t ...

Another whale washed ashore north of Florence last week — the second stranding reported on the Oregon Coast in a matter of ...

A rumor that has circulated online since 2018 claims that, in 2017, a humpback whale in the Cook Islands used its body to push marine biologist Nan Hauser around while she was underwater, seemingly to ...

A baby whale’s inaugural cruise through Big Apple waters ended in tragedy over the weekend after its slashed and bloodied body beached on the shores of New Jersey. The still-breathing behemoth ...

A baby humpback whale stranded off Long Beach Island, New Jersey, has died on a sandbar with suspected propeller injuries, according to a release by the Marine Mammal Stranding Center. The whale ...

A humpback whale found stranded on a sandbar off the southern tip of Long Beach Island died Sunday, officials said. The whale was first spotted by a New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection ...

A pod of orcas were chased by a group of humpback whales off the coast of California, a whale watching company said. Getty Images/iStockphoto A group of orcas was chased by humpback whales off the ...

HOLGATE — A young humpback whale found stranded in the Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge has died, according to a marine official, who said a recovery and investigation has been complicated by the ...