What makes Monterey Bay so appealing is what you can’t see. Starting a mile off shore from Moss Landing is the start of the ...

From Tonga to the Dominican Republic, these destinations offer rare, regulated encounters.

The humpback whale song recording was taken near Bermuda in 1949. Scientists at Cape Cod-based WHOI found it in their archives in fall 2025.

A humpback whale alters the pitch of its song when joined by a neighboring singer, a finding that opens a new chapter in the ongoing effort to understand whale song, some of the most structurally and ...

I’m used to whales being the most boisterous during windy days, so it was fun to enjoy this sighting in glassy waters!” ...

Whale sharks are the largest species of fish on the planet. They are among the largest animals to have ever lived. Only blue whales, sperm whales, and humpback whales (all mammals) are larger. The ...

I keep my Mont Helios jacket on the back of my seat at every meal because it is warm enough to wear outside over the top of my dinner outfit when rare species – blue whales, Ross seals – appear at the ...

The song is that of a humpback whale, a marine giant beloved by whale watchers for its docile nature and spectacular leaps ...

Researchers on Cape Cod, Mass., recently discovered the oldest known recordings of whale sounds and believe the discovery could help scientists understand how the animals communicate ...

Québec’s Whales and Wonders Trail follows the St. Lawrence River from Québec City to Côte-Nord, tracing a waterway that has ...

Archivists and researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have unearthed a recording from the 1940s.

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