Humpback whales are massive animals that are very social and seem to be quite intelligent. When scientist Nan Hauser was swimming in the ocean and studying a pod of humpbacks, she was hoping to learn ...

Videos of animals hunting prey can be fascinating but gruesome. This one is a bit different. The clip of two humpback whales ...

A rumor that has circulated online since 2018 claims that, in 2017, a humpback whale in the Cook Islands used its body to push marine biologist Nan Hauser around while she was underwater, seemingly to ...

In the competitive romance game, mature humpback whales are getting the females more often than their younger rivals because they know how to sing great love songs to them.

A massive mouth can hold a lot of fish, and they don’t come more massive than a humpback whale’s! The amazing clip above ...

Humpback whales alter song pitch to avoid overlap with nearby singers, revealing flexible and responsive vocal behavior.

The song is that of a humpback whale and was recorded by scientists in March 1949 in Bermuda, researchers said.

Humpback whales sometimes use this very intricate, very cool strategy to catch fish. It is called bubble-net feeding. As NPR's Nate Rott reports, a new study suggests the whales are teaching each ...

Not long ago, spotting a humpback whale in Arctic seas felt like winning a lottery ticket. In the early 2000s, University of Southern Denmark whale researcher Olga Filatova spent years searching ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Several inquisitive humpback whales “played” with a spunky rescue pup during an encounter off the coast of San Diego, California, ...

A total of 310 volunteers gathered data about koholā, or humpback whales, on the final coordinated count day of the 2026 season March 28 as part of the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine ...

People travel all over the world to see a humpback whale’s dorsal fin glide through the water or to watch a tail or fin lift ...