The burps, barks and snorts humpback whales make when asking their mother for milk are the first recorded instances of ...

Humpback whales have long impressed us with their incredible travel distances. Now, one impressive male has blown away the ...

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. A male humpback ...

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University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology biologists used drone imagery to understand how nursing ...

A male humpback whale made one of the longest and most unusual migrations on record for the species, an anomaly scientists say might be linked to climate change. The whale was first sighted in ...

Proper food intake is essential for pregnant humpback whales to complete their extraordinary annual migration between Hawaii ...

Humpback whales live in all the world's oceans, from the Arctic to the tropics to the Antarctic, and many of them make annual ...

A humpback whale that had been thrilling boaters off Newport Beach, Ca., for several days breached for a prolonged period Sunday, revealing that the mammal is hardly free and thriving.

By Alexandra E. Petri A humpback whale set a record by traversing at least three oceans and more than 8,000 miles — most likely in search of a mate, according to a new study. A team of ...