Identifying individual humpback whales online

The website happywhale.com collects photos that whale watchers take of the tails of humpbacks, helping ID and track specific whales in their travels around the world.

• Aug 13, 2023

Fossil from "tiny" whale, 41 million years old, discovered in Egypt

Scientists identified a new species of whale from 41 million years ago. It's estimated to have been around 8 feet long and weighed about 412 pounds.

• Aug 10, 2023

Newly discovered ancient whale could be "heaviest animal ever"

A newly studied species of ancient whale might be the heaviest animal ever found.

• Aug 3, 2023

78 whales killed in front of cruise ship passengers

The cruise ship arrived at the Faroe Islands as 78 whales were killed as part of a hunt.

• Jul 13, 2023

Two humpback whales found dead off coast of New York had sustained 'blunt force trauma'

Samples were collected for further analysis and the whale was buried on the beach.

• Jun 3, 2023

Lolita the whale may someday return to wild, Miami park says, but timeline uncertain

Caregivers at a South Florida ocean park are taking steps to prepare an orca whale named Lolita for a possible return to her home waters in Washington's Puget Sound.

• May 24, 2023

Young whale of endangered species "likely to die" after entanglement

The entanglement has left the young whale with "numerous wounds across her body and whale lice on her head," NOAA said.

• Jan 16, 2023

Orca dies after beaching itself north of Daytona Beach

Researchers don't know how the whale ended up there or why it died

• Jan 12, 2023

Dead whales washing ashore prompt local activists to raise alarm

A humpback recently washed ashore in New Jersey, making it the sixth whale dead on our coasts in just over a month.

• Jan 10, 2023

New species of whale named last year is "on the edge of extinction"

"Unless significant conservation actions are taken, the United States is likely to cause the first anthropogenic extinction of a great whale species," scientists said.

• Oct 17, 2022