Aerial drone footage shows the humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) missing its iconic lobed fluke, which is responsible for propulsion while swimming. Taken by Eric Guth under NMFS permit # 24359 ...

Domenic Biagini, who captured the footage via drone, explained via YouTube: “As the whales danced toward the south in pursuit of a lady whale, one of these giant males decided he’d rather try to ...

Cape Cod’s waters now host two high-tech buoys that listen for endangered right whales. How does this help protect these giants in real time?

The whales spotted, ranging from smaller calves to big adults, put on “quite a show,” the group said. The “gentle giants” were spotted pec-slapping, which is when a whale will lay on its side and ...

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Scientists are closer than ever to deciphering sperm whale communication. Their breakthroughs could open the door to expanded whale rights and even legal personhood. A pod of sperm whales swims ...

A toxin released by one of the largest algae blooms on record off the Southern California coast was linked to the deaths of a humpback whale in Huntington Beach and a minke whale in Long Beach.

The cause of death of a juvenile humpback whale stranded on Huntington Beach on Jan. 24 and a minke whale stranded on Long Beach on April 6 was determined to be domoic acid toxicosis, necropsies ...

NOAA confirmed that domoic acid was the cause of death in the juvenile female humpback whale stranded in Huntington Beach and the juvenile male minke whale stranded in the Port of Long Beach.

MONTEREY, Calif. (KION-TV) - A California Humpback Whale is recovering after being entangled in lines of crab traps for six months off the coast of Monterey. A trained team from the Large Whale ...

Test results of the juvenile humpback, stranded on Jan. 24 in Huntington Beach, and on the minke stranded on April 6 in Long Beach, confirmed high levels of domoic acid. The official cause of ...

These include the culturally significant Burri Burri (Humpback Whale) as well as the Australian fur seal, dugong, octopus, mullet, abalone and Weedy sea dragon and many bird and plant species.