Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A lost humpback whale stunned boaters by swimming through Ventura Harbor before responders guided it safely back to open water.

A new study shows that as humpback whale populations recover from past whaling, older males are gaining a major advantage in reproduction. Early in the recovery, breeding groups were dominated by ...

A humpback whale nicknamed Timmy that has been stranded in the Baltic Sea off Germany will be left to die; all rescue efforts have been called off, according to Till Backhaus, environment minister of ...