On that site, more than 3 million emigrants boarded ships to start a new life somewhere abroad (including Willem de Kooning and Albert Einstein ... rain is that humpback whales may be frolicking ...

And just like a human baby shows off its impressive lung capacity when hungry, a baby humpback whale with a hankering for milk lets its mother hear it. According to a new study published Wednesday ...

Université d'Antananarivo and Ambodiforaha Sainte Marie has learned more about the ways baby humpback whales and their mothers communicate. In their study published in the journal Proceedings of ...

The humpback that washed up dead in Long Beach this week has been identified as NYC0393, a playful and spirited cetacean who had become familiar to whale watchers last summer for her acrobatic ...

A young humpback whale washed ashore in Long Beach on Monday morning — with authorities now working to determine why it died, according to police. “Early this morning, a juvenile humpback ...

State officials said the body of a whale calf was found on a Maui beach Friday. Courtesy photo State officials were notified Friday morning of a newborn humpback whale calf that was found dead on ...

A humpback whale that had been thrilling boaters off Newport Beach, Ca., for several days breached for a prolonged period Sunday, revealing that the mammal is hardly free and thriving.

A 75.6% decline in the number of humpback whale mothers with calves was seen and documented off Hawaiʻi between 2013 and 2018. In Southeast Alaska, a recent study shows calf production was ...

A humpback whale cruised incognito alongside his vessel until its slick black body shot out of the ocean like a rocket before belly flopping in a spectacular breach in waters so close to the shore ...

The results suggest that, similar to human babies, baby humpback whales appear to "beg" their mothers for food. Suckling sessions were mainly associated with two sets of low-frequency calls ...

A male humpback whale swam 8,106 miles (13,046 km) from the Pacific to the Indian Ocean, mingling with other whale populations and potentially having sex with them along the way.

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