SYDNEY — More than 50,000 pounds, briefly in flight: A humpback whale breaches off the coast of Port Stephens, Australia, June 18, 2025. Whales breach for a variety of reasons, including ...

Whale watchers spotted a new whale calf Wednesday afternoon, in Haro Strait, between Canada’s Sidney Island and Washington state’s San Juan Island.

The first baby humpback whale of the season has been spotted swimming in the Salish Sea off Washington, photos show. Big Mama was seen with her baby Wednesday, May 21, in the Haro Strait ...

Big Mama, a well-known humpback whale, was seen in the Haro Strait with her eighth calf. Getty Images/iStockphoto The first baby humpback whale of the season has been spotted swimming in the ...

Humpback whale (M. novaeangliae) eye used in this study. Frontal plane (a) and sagittal plane (b) of the eye are shown, as well as the bisected eye (c) following removal of the retina.

His troubles began on Oct. 10, 1985: That day, a 40-foot-long adult humpback whale was spotted in the San Francisco Bay near Oakland.

Brunswick Community College students observed a humpback whale near the mouth of the Cape Fear River. The observation occurred during a bottlenose dolphin research project sponsored by the North ...

FWC has a hotline to report right whale sightings, which can also be used to report humpback sightings. That numbers is 1-877-942-5343, or 1-877-WHALE-HELP.

There was another dead humpback whale that was spotted floating off the Virginia Beach coast in February 2023. “On the average, four to five humpback whales strand a year along the South ...

MONTEREY, Calif. — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that the Large Whale Entanglement Response Network freed a humpback whale that had been entangled in crab traps ...

People on a whale watching expedition got a very special experience on Sunday when a humpback whale got within feet of their boat. The passengers were on the Catallac, a vessel operated by Davey ...

Before Dersch can fully get his bearings, a second humpback whale charges past the diver with its mouth open, narrowly avoiding striking Dersch with its gargantuan maw. As the humpback whale swims ...