Rescuers freed a humpback whale tethered to the seafloor by fishing rope during a “difficult” operation complicated by circling orcas. Photo from the NSRI Rescuers fought to save an entangled humpback ...

In January 2009, a research team sailed from South America toward Antarctica. They hoped to document how killer whales, also known as orcas, worked together to create a wave that could knock a seal ...

Freediver Cindy Yang shared her close encounter with a whale in a video she captured on camera In the clip, she could be seen swimming horizontally on the top of the water, when a huge school of fish ...

Nature turns savage when one of the ocean’s top predators faces a giant of the sea. In this rare and terrifying encounter, a great white shark launches a relentless attack on a humpback whale. The ...

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 ...

June 5, 2025, Mountain View, CA -- A team of scientists from the SETI Institute and the University of California at Davis documented, for the first time, humpback whales producing large bubble rings, ...