There is excitement and concern for North Atlantic right whale mother and calf spotted in busy shipping lanes.

An endangered North Atlantic right whale and her calf were spotted splashing in waters off of New York City last week — ...

Baby animals have an adorable, unique way of capturing our hearts. From a litter of newborn puppies to the baby king crab who ...

CHICAGO — Charlie Jacobsma slapped the surface of a pool enclosure at Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium and scanned the water for ...

A kayaker is lucky to be alive after he was swallowed by a humpback whale last week off the Chilean coast before the whale spit him out. The man's father took this video of the encounter, both men ...

Humpback whale songs share structural similarities with human language, suggesting complex communication patterns.

How babies learn to decode adult speech was integral to new research on the structure of humpback whale song. (Darren Svan/Idaho Education News/The Associated Press) "Let's think about the [word] ...

Neuroscientist Kamilla Souza is bringing the study of whale and dolphin brains to her home country of Brazil. Now there's a ...

After a couple of months, each baby has gained enough strength to accompany its mother ... and back in the same breeding grounds it was born in, the young whale is ready to become independent. During ...

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A humpback whale briefly engulfed a kayaker off the coast of Chile in an incident caught on camera. Experts say it couldn't have swallowed him even if it wanted to.

PUNTA ARENAS, Chile — A humpback whale briefly swallowed a kayaker off Chilean Patagonia before quickly releasing him ...