Recovering humpback whale populations are revealing a hidden shift: older males are increasingly outcompeting younger rivals to father calves.

New research from the University of St Andrews published in Current Biology has shown that the role of age in male humpback ...

Scientists following humpback whales once brought to the brink of extinction in the South Pacific made a fascinating discovery: Older males were more likely to become fathers and younger males were ...

Southern right whales have distinctive white and gray patches of thickened skin on their heads known as callosities. Because ...

A long-term study using DNA from whale scat has revealed surprising complexity in the diets of southern Alaska’s fish-eating killer whales.

Fins washing up in the North Pacific suggest that orcas from one subspecies are snacking on other orcas, and researchers ...

Fish-eating killer whales in southern Alaska have a diverse, seasonally changing diet featuring salmon and groundfish, ...

Australian photographer Jono Allen has captured what many may never see in a lifetime: a white humpback whale calf – an animal born with a lack of pigmentation so rare it occurs in just 1 in 40,000 ...

Whether capturing them on film, containing them in amusement parks, or subjecting them to scientific experiments, our curiosity about whales and dolphins has compelled us to capture them out of the ...

Ex-Sony chief Michael Lynton has admitted that he regrets Seth Rogen’s 2014 movie The Interview, which featured a plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.