Humpback whales play a pivotal role in marine ecosystems by linking distant oceanic regions through their extensive migratory journeys. Their annual movements between high‐latitude, productive feeding ...

After a year of difficult headlines for the environment, a rare bright spot has emerged: The population of an endangered whale species is steadily rising. North Atlantic right whales are large, docile ...

Southern Resident killer whales are a small and well-studied group of orcas that have long been seen as an isolated group without much outside connection. New research challenges that view, suggesting ...

Once hunted almost to extinction, the group of humpback whales currently migrating down Australia's east coast has bounced back — and then some. In a preliminary report to the federal Department of ...