Despite having big eyes, the whales can't make out details of objects more than a few body lengths away, according to a new ...

Whale researchers have new data about humpback whales giving birth along a busy “humpback highway” off Australia.

New research reveals that humpback whales are giving birth much farther south than previously thought, raising concerns about ...

Each year, humpback whales migrate predictably between cold, nutrient-rich feeding grounds and warm, tropical calving grounds ...

Despite their massive size and large eyes, humpback whales may not see their ocean world as clearly as once thought.

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

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

It turns out humpback whales' epic migrations to tropical waters aren't as essential as previously thought for giving birth: ...

Humpback whales are now migrating north to their warmer breeding waters — but some of them will give birth as far south as ...

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

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 ...

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 ...