One of the world’s largest mammals, the humpback whale is an incredible species for many reasons. They may even be the ocean’s protectors. Researchers have witnessed humpback whales intervening during ...

Rising ocean temperatures are shrinking the critical ocean foraging habitat of the California Current and driving humpback ...

New research shows that, off the U.S. West Coast, humpback whales face a higher risk of getting entangled in fishing equipment during years with lower availability of cool-water habitat, where the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rescuers work to free a humpback whale from fishing gear. (DFO - image credit) Humpback whales are more likely to get entangled in ...

New research finds that rising ocean temperatures are shrinking cool-water feeding grounds, pushing humpbacks into gear-heavy waters near shore.

New research finds climate change is having an impact on how large whale species, including the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale, use habitats in the warming Gulf of Maine, showing ...

As humpback whales recover, older males are fathering more calves, revealing how whaling still shapes mating and competition ...

A new study shows that as humpback whale populations recover from past whaling, older males are gaining a major advantage in reproduction. Early in the recovery, breeding groups were dominated by ...

The other day, an article in Popular Mechanics (of all things) caught my attention. It described how scientists are making ...

Conceptual summary on the utility of the cumulative Habitat Compression Index as an rate tracker of thermal habitat availability pertaining to ecosystem shifts (involving humpback whales and their ...

Humpback whales are more likely to get entangled in fishing gear in years when rising ocean temperatures make cold-water habitat harder to find, according to new research published Wednesday. The ...