Aerial drone footage shows the humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) missing its iconic lobed fluke, which is responsible ...

In a remarkable encounter, human scientists at Whale-SETI had what they describe as a "conversation" with a humpback whale named Twain.

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As humpback whale numbers climb back after decades of large-scale hunting, scientists are spotting strange things. A new study reveals that older males are now more likely to father calves, while ...

On March 7, 1949, researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) were stationed on a boat called the R/V Atlantis that was sailing off the coast of Bermuda. They lowered a primitive ...

The Tentative Lists of States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to facilitate ...

Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) are incredibly massive whales that weigh between 40-100 tons, reach 48-62 feet long, and live up to 50 years. Humpbacks spend almost 90 percent of their time ...

Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) diving. X-ray ptychography is an imaging technique that could potentially produce single-digit, nanometer-scale visualizations of internal structures without ...

News of Australia’s “humpback comeback” is making waves globally. Numbers of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) on the nation’s east coast have rebounded to an estimated 50,000 from a historic ...

Dive beneath the surface with 2025’s best ocean photography, and get a glimpse into the hidden lives of sharks, whales and sea dragons. Since 1995, the annual Nature’s Best Photography Awards strive ...