These gentle giants have poor eyesight and may not be able to see fishnets and boats with which they have fatal encounters.

By measuring a humpback whale eye specimen, University of North Carolina Wilmington and Duke University researchers found ...

Humpback and bowhead whales are thought to sing ... The discovery can also aid conservation projects monitoring whale groups, as fine-scale song differences between populations can allow a rapid ...

A humpback whale has been found travelling a ... global datasets on such wide-ranging marine mammals to study how large-scale environmental changes are affecting their populations.

Humpback whales in Hawaiʻi have been widely ... Its extensive temporal and spatial scale offers invaluable insights into the effects of large-scale climatic events on this iconic sentinel species.

Humpback whale populations ... “Happywhale has revolutionized our field and has made large-scale collaborations possible,” Pack said. Earlier this year, Cheeseman, Pack and dozens of other ...

Run-ins with humans are the leading cause of death for humpback whales — and new research ... silhouettes and struggle to resolve fine-scale details until they’re extremely close, said Jacob ...