Footage of humpback whales captured by drones has revealed how the animals manoeuvre their whole bodies when they feed. As BBC News filmed with scientists in the Antarctic Peninsula, one whale ...

A small international team of marine mammal scientists has found evidence that just 7% of the male humpback whales residing ...

When feeding on krill in Antarctic waters the whales can easily ... already revolutionised scientists’ understanding of humpback whales by using photos uploaded by members of the public to ...

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The study, published in Science last month, conducted a worldwide assessment of ship-strike risks to whales. Researchers drew on about 435,000 records of whale locations, combining the data with ...

Two humpback whales were freed of life-threatening entanglements on Wednesday, Jan. 8 and Thursday, Jan. 9 off the coast of Maui in Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary. Trained ...

Federal wildlife officials say two humpback whales were recently freed of life-threatening entanglements in fishing lines in separate incidents off Maui. One was a subadult whale with 200 feet of ...

humpback, and sperm whale ranges containing shipping activity. High-risk hot spots were identified in all ocean regions except Antarctic waters in the Southern Ocean, with continental coastlines ...

Photo from Art of Adventure, UnSplash During recent Antarctic expeditions ... Photo from the journal Marine Mammal Science A humpback whale was seen using an “unusual hunting technique ...