One of the world’s largest mammals, the humpback whale is an incredible species for many reasons. They may even be the ocean’s protectors. Researchers have witnessed humpback whales intervening during ...

Mother Humpback Whale Gently Helps Diver to the Surface to ‘Help Him Breathe' originally appeared on PetHelpful. Underwater photographer Jono Allen has had his fair share of unforgettable encounters ...

Bubble net feeding is when humpback whales work together to herd fish into a tight group, blowing a curtain of bubbles so ...

Humpback in the Senyavin Strait in far eastern Russia. When University of Southern Denmark whale researcher Olga Filatova set off on her first field trip in 2000, she spent five years looking for ...

Bubble ring created by a humpback whale named Thorn. Credit: © Dan Knaub, The Whale Video Company. June 5, 2025, Mountain View, CA -- A team of scientists from the ...

News of Australia’s “humpback comeback” is making waves globally. Numbers of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) on the nation’s east coast have rebounded to an estimated 50,000 from a historic ...

The young whale, dubbed "Oil Change," was seen repeatedly off Cape Cod, and would entertain whale watchers with breaches and flipper slaps.

VANCOUVER — There's been a series of entanglements and collisions involving humpback whales in British Columbia waters in recent weeks as numbers of the mammals surge, but the circumstances of the ...

June 5, 2025, Mountain View, CA -- A team of scientists from the SETI Institute and the University of California at Davis documented, for the first time, humpback whales producing large bubble rings, ...