A “well known” sea creature with a “traumatic past” was spotted feeding off the coast of California. On June 29, Fingers, a ...

Commuters experienced an extraordinary delay when their ferry journey across Sydney Harbour was unexpectedly halted by a pod ...

Sydney’s harbor becomes a humpback highway in winter as the whales migrate from feeding grounds in Antarctica to breeding ...

The largest blue whale ever recorded weighed over 199 tons. Even average-sized blue whales are massive, weighing around 350,000 pounds. That’s about the same as 30 adult male African elephants.

Estimating the amounts of krill or fish consumed by whales has long been an obsession of the proponents of industrial whaling, who argue that these amounts are too large and then use the figures ...

In addition to small fish, their meals include krill, which are shrimp-like crustaceans they eat by straining water through bristly baleen plates made of keratin that act like a sieve. Asmutis ...

Groups of humpbacks can be spotted feeding in a big pocket of krill and small fish. As those pockets get smaller, the whales can spread out to find more to eat.

Humpback whales, despite their gargantuan size, eat very small prey like krill and plankton. To sustain their massive bodies, however, they must consume a lot of this food — up to 3,000 pounds ...

And when we analysed the skin of the humpback whales, we saw a clear shift to a fish-dominated diet. In contrast, blue whales only eat krill, and detection of their songs plummeted with large ...

According to NOAA, some humpback whales in the Northern Pacific migrate roughly 3,000 miles from Alaska to feed and then to Hawai’i to breed. They can even complete this journey in only 28 days.

There are now around 500 humpback whales in the Salish Sea, according to the Pacific Whale Watch Association. Here’s what to know about Washington’s humpback whales, including the best way to ...