The Pentagon increasingly sees the Pacific as its most important theater of operations as tensions brew between the U.S. and ...

A humpback whale that is missing its tail and was spotted in Washington state’s inland waters likely lost its iconic flukes after becoming entangled, possibly in some kind of line or fishing ...

However, a new study has revealed that humpback whale song actually shares the same statistical pattern of human language. There is an empirical rule called Zipf's law that all human languages follow.

Humpback whales are some of the largest creatures on Earth and live in every one of the planet’s oceans. Their seasonal ...

June 5, 2025, Mountain View, CA -- A team of scientists from the SETI Institute and the University of California at Davis documented, for the first time, humpback whales producing large bubble rings, ...

Humpback whales have been documented for the first time creating large bubble rings in water during friendly interactions with humans, suggesting they could be trying to communicate with us.

To understand humpback vision, Mr. Bolin and his team dissected the eye of a juvenile humpback whale that died on a North Carolina beach in 2011.

Humpback whales have been observed blowing bubble rings during friendly interactions with humans a behavior never before documented. This surprising display may be more than play; it could ...

While saltwater crocodiles and Komodo dragons could potentially swallow a small human in pieces or whole, humpback whales ...

Sydney commuters witness humpback whales halting ferry traffic, highlighting the conservation success and human-wildlife ...

Other animals including some early humans, non-human primates, sea otters, elephants, and bird species are known to use ...

A team of scientists from the SETI Institute and the University of California at Davis has documented, for the first time, humpback whales producing large bubble rings, like a human smoker blowing ...