Biologists used drone imagery to understand how nursing humpback whale mothers and their calves fare as they cross the Pacific Ocean. Recent declines in North Pacific humpback whale reproduction ...

The Pacific Whale Watch Association said this is a trip Big Mama has made dozens of times over her life span. Big Mama has been an important part of the humpback whale's population rebound over ...

Recent declines in North Pacific humpback whale reproduction and survival of calves highlight the need to understand how mother-calf pairs expend energy across their migratory cycle. The study was ...

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 ...

Move over Moby Dick. Big Mama, the first humpback whale to have returned to the North Pacific's Salish Sea after decades of absence, is telling a new story about the global threat to whale ...

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

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 ...

“Our humpback whale health database, comprising 11,000 measurements of 8,500 individual whales in the North Pacific, is being used across several projects within the Marine Mammal Research ...

A battle-scarred male humpback whale named Frodo has completed the longest- known movement for his species, a new study says.. Between 2017 and 2018, the animal swam nearly 7,000 miles from Saipan ...

A male humpback whale has made an extraordinary journey from South America to Africa — traveling more than 13,046 kilometers (8,106 miles) — the longest migration recorded for a single whale ...

A male humpback whale swam 8,106 miles (13,046 km) from the Pacific to the Indian Ocean, mingling with other whale populations and potentially having sex with them along the way.

Humpback whale numbers in the North Pacific Ocean climbed from about 16,875 in 2002 to 33,488 whales in 2012, according to NOAA. Between 2012 and 2021, the number of humpback whales declined, ...