As Australia's east coast tourism industry dives into a new whale migration season, a UniSC study has revealed the emotional ...

In this newest sanctuary, NOAA partners with an Indigenous tribe to protect vital marine habitat and sacred places.

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

Learn more about the migrations of East Australian humpback whales, which were traditionally thought to travel from polar to ...

Researchers in Australia found records of humpback whale calves more than 900 miles farther south than expected ...

Humpback whales are not always born in tropical waters, new research has shown -- challenging long-held assumptions about their breeding and migration behaviors, while raising new questions for marine ...

A new study published in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science challenges long-held beliefs about humpback migration.

Humpback whale calves are now known to be born as far south as Tasmania and New Zealand—932 miles beyond their traditional ...

Humpback whales ( Megaptera novaeangliae) are master migrators. Some populations of this baleen whale species travel upwards of 5,000 miles per year from colder waters to feed, towards warmer tropical ...

KZN's iSimangaliso Wetland Park—aptly named ‘miracle’ or ‘ wonder’ in Zulu—cradles ten distinct ‘jewels’. Here's a guide to ...

In December last year, a young humpback whale washed up dead on a NSW beach. It had been caught in fishing rope and floats, becoming exhausted as it tried to swim the route of its annual migration ...

This hidden island paradise off Africa's west coast offers breathtaking beauty, though it remains one of the world's most ...