The whale was about eight meters (25 feet) long, Jacobs said, indicating it was still "quite young". The rope appeared to be tangled around the whale's left pectoral fin, she said.

Whale watchers spotted a new whale calf Wednesday afternoon, in Haro Strait, between Canada’s Sidney Island and Washington state’s San Juan Island.

The first baby humpback whale of the season has been spotted swimming in the Salish Sea off Washington, photos show. Big Mama was seen with her baby Wednesday, May 21, in the Haro Strait ...

Big Mama, a well-known humpback whale, was seen in the Haro Strait with her eighth calf. Getty Images/iStockphoto The first baby humpback whale of the season has been spotted swimming in the ...

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. While most whales that wash ashore have been dead ...

There was another dead humpback whale that was spotted floating off the Virginia Beach coast in February 2023. “On the average, four to five humpback whales strand a year along the South ...

MONTEREY, Calif. — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that the Large Whale Entanglement Response Network freed a humpback whale that had been entangled in crab traps ...

People on a whale watching expedition got a very special experience on Sunday when a humpback whale got within feet of their boat. The passengers were on the Catallac, a vessel operated by Davey ...

The whale measures about 35 feet in length, according to the post. Arrangements are being made to tow the animal to shore so the team can perform a necropsy in attempt to identify its condition ...

Heartbreaking footage has surfaced showing a humpback whale calf struggling to free itself from a netting that seems hopelessly wrapped around its head off the Hawaiian island of Oahu. The footage ...

A humpback whale briefly swallowed a 24-year-old kayaker last Saturday during a father-son excursion out on the icy waters around Chile’s southernmost Patagonia region.