Better understanding how humpbacks and other whales see could inspire “strategies for making fishing gear more visible” and ...

Despite having big eyes, the whales can't make out details of objects more than a few body lengths away, according to a new ...

Humpback whale calves are now known to be born as far south as Tasmania and New Zealand—932 miles beyond their traditional ...

A team of marine biologists at the University of North Carolina and Duke University has found humpback whales have poorer ...

It turns out humpback whales' epic migrations to tropical waters aren't as essential as previously thought for giving birth: ...

A new study published in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science challenges long-held beliefs about humpback migration.

New research reveals that humpback whales are giving birth much farther south than previously thought, raising concerns about ...

A new study published in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science challenges long-held beliefs about humpback migration.

The humpback whale has the whale equivalent of nearsightedness, which puts it at risk of being snarled in fishing gear.

Humpback whales are now migrating north to their warmer breeding waters — but some of them will give birth as far south as ...

Humpback whales ( Megaptera novaeangliae) are master migrators. Some populations of this baleen whale species travel upwards of 5,000 miles per year from colder waters to feed, towards warmer tropical ...

Humpback whales are not always born in tropical waters, new research has shown -- challenging long-held assumptions about their breeding and migration behaviors, while raising new questions for marine ...