Humpback whales can be fifty feet long and weigh 66,000 pounds, while killer whales average around twenty feet in length and tip the scales at 5,000 pounds for females and 10,000 pounds for males.

Humpback whales reduce their calling rates when it gets noisy. They can’t hear each other when it gets loud. They have to exert extra energy, or they might get stressed when it gets noisy. And if ...

Humpback whales very occasionally injure humans if they feel threatened. For example, a female humpback whale with a calf charged swimmers in Australia in 2020, sending two people to the hospital.

“Humpback whales are apparently unwilling to go outside of that known space, regardless of the scale of disturbance,” he said. “A whale whose home range is Southeast Alaska is not going to feed in the ...

Humpback whales blowing bubble rings may be a positive sign, researchers say. Humpback whales may be communicating with humans in a playful way, according to researchers who have been studying the ...

The Hawaii humpback population was especially hard hit, falling by 34% from 2013 to 2021. Although there had been some sightings of Old Timer reported after 2015, Pack was excited to finally set ...

Experts explain why the incident depicted in a viral video was an accident caused by natural feeding behaviors. A humpback whale, like this one seen off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, might breach as it ...

Finally, some good environmental news. After being almost wiped out by whaling in the 20th century, a humpback whale population off the coast of South America has come back from the brink of ...