The humpback whale is trailing a rope and a buoy, which is about 20 metres behind it. (Supplied: @ClaySweetman) "Humpback whales would usually all be still heading north this time of year in June.

Back to homepage / Live news Tangled humpback whale sparks rescue mission off Australia. Sydney (AFP) – Wildlife rescue teams scoured Australia's east coast on Monday to find and free a ...

Image grab taken from video footage provided by whale rescue group Organisation for the Rescue and Research of Cetaceans in Australia (ORRCA) on June 9, 2025 shows a distressed humpback whale ...

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 ...

Amazing slow motion Stock Footage of a humpback whale baby coming up from the deep blue, breaching the water surface - jumps fully out of the water and falls back into the Pacific Ocean with a big ...

Watch Inquisitive Humpback Whales Blow Bubble Rings At Whale Watchers "We’ve now located a dozen whales from populations around the world, ...

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 ...

Sightings soar on Australia’s ‘humpback highway’ as 40,000 whales return for winter. Annual migration sees whales journeying from cold feeding grounds of Antarctica ...

Humpback whales are known for being calm and non-aggressive during encounters with humans. In fact, these whales rarely attack humans unprovoked, and any damage they inflict upon vessels may simply be ...

A humpback whale stays by the side of a whale entangled in fishing gear. He spent more than five hours by her side, swimming below her and raising her to the surface to breathe. Photograph By Dan ...

A group of divers attempted to free an entangled humpback whale off the coast of Mexico, video shows. A shark was also attached to the entanglement. Photo from Tucker Riggins, UnSplash Divers off ...

An entangled humpback whale was seen dragging a dead shark by a rope off the coast of Mexico, video shows. Divers attempted to free the marine mammal.