Discover how humpback whale hormones provide insights into their mating patterns and the stressors they face in their marine ...

They are big. They are beautiful. And they are back. The return of the humpback whale to greater numbers than observed in decades is part of a larger revival of marine mammals in the Salish Sea. It is ...

A humpback whale entangled in fishing gear was spotted Friday west of Winchester Bay, the Oregon Department of Fish and ...

STUART ISLAND, Wash. — Whale watchers are celebrating the return of a well-known humpback whale affectionately known as “Big Mama.” The Pacific Whale Watch Association (PWWA) said the beloved whale ...

A tourist who drew widespread condemnation in Hawaii after a witness recorded him chucking a coconut-sized rock at “Lani,” a beloved, endangered Hawaiian monk seal off a Maui beach, was arrested ...

After weeks of rescue efforts, a barge carrying an injured humpback whale stranded off the Baltic coast set sail this week to relocate the distressed mammal to deeper oceanic waters. The juvenile male ...

BERLIN (AP) — A barge carrying a humpback whale that had been stranded in shallow waters near Germany since March has begun its journey toward the North Sea. It reached Danish waters on Wednesday, ...

The entrepreneur-funded rescue effort said that it had fitted the previously stranded whale with a tracking device but this is suspected to be untrue. Timmy, a humpback whale who caught the world's ...