Have you ever seen a picture or a video of a whale jumping out of the water? If you have, you’ve seen a whale breaching.

Thrilled spectators along Australia’s east coast were treated to an extraordinary sight over the weekend — a white whale calf gliding through the waves beside its mother. The heartwarming encounter ...

Humpback whales have been documented for the first time creating large bubble rings in water during friendly interactions with humans, suggesting they could be trying to communicate with us.

To get a glimpse of how whales communicate, the new study explored 12 bubble ring production episodes that were obtained by citizen scientists and researchers. These events involved 39 bubble rings ...

A team of scientists from the SETI Institute and the University of California at Davis has documented, for the first time, humpback whales producing large bubble rings, like a human smoker blowing ...

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, ...

It doesn’t happen overnight, but the recovery of humpback whales, and the return of their full range of behaviors and distribution, just goes to show that with good policies built on good science we ...

Some humpback whale babies are born on the move. We used to think that humpback whales lived in cold waters for half of the year, eating lots of krill to develop reserves for migration and ...

Whale researchers combined modern-day sightings with 19 th century records and are revealing new information about when and where humpback whales give birth along a busy “humpback highway” off ...

Humpback whales can give birth while migrating thousands of miles Hundreds of calves have been born outside known breeding grounds near Australia. By Laura Baisas Published May 20, 2025 12:00 AM EDT ...