Posted: Apr 12, 2024 / 02:53 PM EDT Updated: Apr 12, 2024 / 02:56 PM EDT A dead humpback whale rolls in the surf in Long Beach Township on New Jersey’s Long Beach Island on Thursday, April 11, 2024.

Humpback whales have begun to make their appearance along the Southern California coast, with several sightings reported this week.© Gavriel Berghouse Photography, Dana Wharf Courtesy Photo ...

So they rest a lot of the time on their mum’s back.” Once near extinction, humpback whales have rebounded thanks to conservation programs. Today the population is estimated at roughly 50,000.

Humpback whales are some of the largest creatures on Earth and live in every one of the planet’s oceans. Their seasonal migrations are among the longest of any mammal, stretching thousands of ...

To understand humpback vision, Mr. Bolin and his team dissected the eye of a juvenile humpback whale that died on a North Carolina beach in 2011. While most whales that wash ashore have been dead ...