Bowhead whales can live over 200 years thanks to a protein that helps their cells repair DNA damage efficiently.

Breathtaking drone footage of a humpback whale bonding with her newborn calf in the middle of the ocean surrounding the Niue ...

Mother Humpback Whale Teaching Baby How To Breach Is a Once-in-a-Lifetime Sight originally appeared on PetHelpful. As the largest species of animal that's ever been discovered, whales are impressive ...

A new addition to the Pacific Northwest’s humpback whale population arrived in the Salish Sea this week. Whale watchers spotted a new whale calf Wednesday afternoon, in Haro Strait, between Canada’s ...

Big Mama, a well-known humpback whale, was seen in the Haro Strait with her eighth calf. Getty Images/iStockphoto The first baby humpback whale of the season has been spotted swimming in the Salish ...

Whale researchers combined modern-day sightings with 19 th century records and are revealing new information about when and where humpback whales give birth along a busy “humpback highway” off ...

A UNSW-led study published today shows humpback whales are being born much further south than previously thought, with sightings extending as far as Tasmania – more than 1500 kilometres ahead of the ...

As so-called “killer whales” have made news over the past few years for violent boat attacks in European waters, marine biologists have noticed a far sweeter behavior in Iceland’s frigid waves: the ...

One day in June 2022 Chérine Baumgartner, a researcher at the Icelandic Orca Project, was watching from a dinghy as a pod of killer whales fed on herring—when she noticed something very odd about what ...

An atmospheric river is moving through western Washington and expected to dump 1-3 inches of rain. by Colleen West, KOMO News TOPICS: VANCOUVER ISLAND, B.C. — There’s new hope in the J Pod of ...