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A young male humpback whale has been spotted fraternizing with females in two different groups located on opposite sides of ...

A male humpback has completed the longest recorded migration for a whale from South America to Africa. Scientists explain why ...

Biologists say mating, climate change or simply being confused might have driven the creature to swim great distances, ...

According to researchers from Royal Society Open Science, a humpback whale has made one of the most astonishingly long migrations ever recorded.

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A humpback whale traveled more than 8,000 miles — farther than the Earth’s diameter — in search of sex, a new study reveals. The “unusual” odyssey, which spanned three o ...

A several-ton humpback whale broke through the surface and leaped into the sky, like a Pacific Life insurance commercial, scattering adjacent seabirds while opening its massive mouth to consume ...