Researchers in Australia have significant concerns about local humpback whale populations in the Southern Ocean due to recent shifts in migration patterns. The University of Queensland found that the ...

Humpback whales may look like gentle giants, but each year they undertake nature's most extreme crash diet, shedding around 36% of their mass in less than two months – somehow avoiding the tissue ...

Each year, as temperatures drop in Antarctica, a great migration begins. Tens of thousands of humpback whales—more than 45,000 by some estimates—set off on an epic 6,200-mile journey north that runs ...

Marine scientists captured multiple videos of remora behavior via camera suction tags deployed on migrating humpback whales as part of their everyday research. Although its physical mechanics are ...

Humpback whales are some of the largest creatures on Earth and live in every one of the planet’s oceans. Their seasonal migrations are among the longest of any mammal, stretching thousands of miles.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — There are easier ways to cross an ocean, but few are as slick or stylish as the remora’s whale-surfing joyride. Scientists tracking humpbacks off the coast of Australia have ...