Exclusive: Images show deep cuts and damage to tails and fins, as experts warn the migrating species often aren’t able to avoid a collision ...

Humpback whales are famous for long migrations, but one isolated population stays in the Arabian Sea year-round.

Gray whales that have followed the same coastal migration corridor between Arctic feeding grounds and Mexican breeding lagoons for centuries are now turning into San Francisco Bay in growing numbers, ...

Somewhere between 2003 and 2025, a humpback whale left the warm breeding waters off Brazil, crossed the full width of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and turned up in Hervey Bay, a shallow stretch of ...

A new study led by McGill University researchers indicates that humpback whales in the southeastern Pacific combine real-time environmental cues with their memories of conditions in their Antarctic ...

Spectacular drone footage captures humpback whales breaching and dramatically slapping the water during their annual migration. Brett Jelfs, 40, from Australia, who has been filming sealife for three ...

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Baleen whales are some of the most unique and breathtaking animals. These huge marine mammals are some of the biggest to have ever existed and are found all over the world. Despite their size, these ...

New research into the energy use of humpback whales during their annual migrations has found they lose 11,000kg of blubber—which is equivalent to the energy obtained after feeding on 57,000 kg of ...

Baja California is calling on residents and travelers to witness one of the Pacific’s most awe-inspiring natural events: the annual gray whale migration. According to Miguel Ángel Badiola Montaño, ...

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