Albino humpback whales do not typically reach adulthood, because their brightness makes it hard for them to avoid predators. Supreme Court Decision Could Cost Donald Trump the Election The 25 Most ...

In a groundbreaking study published this week in The Journal of Physiology, biologists at the Marine Mammal Research Program (MMRP) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa Hawaiʻi Institute of ...

Off California, a North Pacific right whale, one of fewer than 50 in U.S. waters, lingered near a research boat for 20 minutes, giving scientists a close look at this rare species. Anglers in Honduras ...

"Big Mama" and her eighth calf have migrated back to PNW waters! They were recently spotted near San Juan Islands.

A humpback whale stays by the side of a whale entangled in fishing gear. He spent more than five hours by her side, swimming ...

Whales can also help cycle nutrients in the ocean when they disturb the seabed as they feed. Gray whales ( Eschrichtius robustus ), for example, are known to forage for invertebrates on the seafloor ...

Big Mama, the first humpback whale to have returned to the North ... a marginal body of the Pacific Ocean that spans the US-Canada border. The industrialised hunting of cetaceans had led global ...

Eavesdropping on baleen whale songs in the Pacific Ocean reveals year-to-year variations ... researchers monitored songs from blue, fin and humpback whales off the West Coast of the United States ...

enduring in the Pacific Ocean while some other humpbacks have struggled in a changing environment. By Emily Anthes A humpback whale’s tail is as unique as a fingerprint. The lobes, or flukes ...

A collision with an ocean vessel may have been what killed a humpback whale that washed ashore in Huntington Beach last week, according to officials with the Pacific Marine Mammal Center.