If you are the type of person who cannot go to bed without the sounds of the ocean, chances are, you are unaware of how those sounds came to be.

The critter for this week is the Humpback Whale Louse. Over the weekend, a humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) became ...

A humpback whale stays by the side of a whale entangled in fishing gear. He spent more than five hours by her side, swimming below her and raising her to the surface to breathe. Photograph By Dan ...

In mid‑June, a rare case of mammalian altruism unfolded off the coast of Western Australia. A pod of dolphins escorted a young humpback whale from the confines of a shallow bay into deeper water.