For Victorians, the prime whale watching season is roughly from May to October each year. Migrating from Antarctica, they ...

South Africa’s whale watching season offers front-row seats to a natural event that feels almost surreal. Here's where you ...

Whale moms use another safety strategy for their young calves: They migrate thousands of miles to raise them in shallow-water nurseries. Southern right whales live in the ocean off countries like ...

Scientists had believed Southern right whales have a lifespan of about 70 years, but a new study shows that endangered mammals can live twice as long as they had thought. The study found these ...

Brindle coloration in whales is extremely rare. Only about four percent of southern right whales are brindle colored when they are born, and most of them turn gray as they grow up. A picture shows ...

Southern right whales can live 130 years or more — nearly twice as long as previously thought, according to a new study. Photo from Chengyu Wang, UnSplash Southern right whales can live to be ...

Excited locals have gathered at the docks of one of Australia’s oldest cities to watch an ancient ritual, the annual ...

A new study has found the southern right whale population recovery seems to have recently stalled at a level far below pre-whaling levels. Researchers say they are fearful it might signal the "end ...

Australia's population of southern right whales has experienced substantial growth since the late 1970s when they began to recover from whaling, but a new study reveals troubling signs in their ...

In Argentina, kelp gulls are attacking the backs of southern right whales, imperiling the recovery of an endangered species. By Annie Roth Thousands of colossal southern right whales travel to the ...

In the subantarctic Auckland Islands, Wildlife Photographer of the Year winner Richard Robinson captures a bright new future for the whales almost hunted to extinction. Richard Robinson was being ...