Learn more about why humpback whales can't really see that well and how it is putting them in danger. advertisement. Discover Magazine. Big Eyes, Blurry Vision: Why Humpback Whales Struggle to See ...

Humpback whales blow spiraling circles of bubbles to create underwater nets for their tiny prey, krill. Hunter Warick/Alaska Whale Foundation, images collected under NMFS Permit #19703 hide caption ...

A s intimidating as they seem up close, humpback whales often see humans as friends, not foes. The sociability of these gentle souls is perhaps best represented by a curious behavior they exhibit ...

Humpback Whales Can’t See as Well as Scientists Thought, and It Might Explain Why They Keep Getting Tangled in Fishing Gear Despite having big eyes, the whales can’t make out details of ...

To target the tiny prey they depend on, humpbacks have developed a way of trapping them with nets made out of bubbles. A new study shows exactly how they do it.

A large group of humpback whales was spotted in the Santa Barbara Channel. Passengers got a particularly clear view of a basking shark off Ventura. Boats recently reported spotting a large group ...

Humpback whales could be secretly trying to talk to humans, ... From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing.

JUPITER, Fla. — Humpback whales are typically not found in Jupiter, but two Palm Beach County boaters were lucky enough to see one and record it. On Saturday, Mike Lee and Daniel Hanna were out ...

She was one of the Big Apple’s hottest young rising stars — and she was tragically lost too soon. The humpback that washed up dead in Long Beach this week has been identified as NYC0393, a ...

Big news for anyone hoping to one day talk to a whale, and it arrives at the same as another groundbreaking study into whale song that used methods normally used to study human infants.It too ...

It would be easy to assume that the bigger an animal’s eyes, the better they must work. However, a new study, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, has revealed ...

For humpback whales, it’s krill – small shrimp-like animals floating in the ocean. Capturing enough krill can take a lot of work, like if your morning bowl of cereal were spread out across a ...