Humpback whales are among the most beautiful and gentle creatures on the planet. They are among the largest creatures on land or in the ocean, smaller than only a few other whale species. They are ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s musings about America controlling Greenland have put this Arctic territory under the spotlight ...

Like Loch Ness in Scotland, the Shannon Estuary in Ireland has long been home to a fabled sea monster. Known as a Cathaigh — ...

Footage of humpback whales captured by drones ... As BBC News filmed with scientists in the Antarctic Peninsula, one whale used its four-metre-long fin to sweep a net of bubbles around its prey ...

and tire tracks in the sand are all that remain on the beach following the necropsy of a 27-foot-long, at least 19,000-pound juvenile humpback whale that washed ashore at Bennett Street in Kitty ...

Researchers search for cause of death for humpback that washed up in Kitty Hawk Submitted by Jennette’s Pier Staff Members of the Outer Banks Marine Mammal Stranding Network along with dozens of ...

A humpback whale was spotted leaping from the water off the Sussex coast. Kitty Dale spotted the whale from Hastings seafront yesterday, January 3. She said: "I’d just had lunch at the White ...

A humpback whale in the Isles of Scilly "put on a show" for visitors, leaving them in awe. Molly Wates, who lives in West Sussex, said it was an "unbelievable" sight as the breaching whale emerged ...

Federal and state officials are recovering the carcass of a humpback whale calf from the shores of Kihei, Maui. The Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources says it is a deceased humpback whale ...

A humpback whale cruised incognito alongside his vessel ... Humpback whales, which can weigh up to 40 tons and live as long as 90 years, live in oceans around the world and travel great distances ...

Humpback whale populations have been increasing throughout many of their ranges since a final moratorium on commercial ...