“Simply put, she’s the whale who started it all,” Gless said. More humpback whales are expected to return to the Salish Sea ...

The first baby humpback whale of the season has been spotted in the Salish Sea off Washington, photos show. A whale watching ...

The main difference will be for two groups that swim the Salish Sea. Communities around Puget Sound are familiar with resident orcas, which are commonly seen. Bigg's killer whales spend more time ...

Baleen whales eat between 10 and 20 tons a day, a 2021 Nature report found. That’s the caloric equivalent of eating 70-80 thousand Big Macs per day, the researchers told NPR. Humpback whales ...

Feb. 21, 2024 — The iconic baleen whales, such as the blue, gray and humpback whale, depend on sound for communication in the vast marine environment where they live. Now researchers have for ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - You still have time to catch a glimpse of humpback whales in Hawaii before they head back to Alaska. Hawaii News Now ventured out to Oahu’s North Shore in search of ...

A total of 424 volunteers gathered data from the shores of Kaua’i, O’ahu, Moloka’i and Hawai’i islands during the Hawaiian Islands Humpback ... A total of 72 whales were observed during ...

It may not look like it, but whales have hair. Some lose it after birth, while others – including the humpback and right whales – have short hairs on their face. Whales give birth to live ...

Blue whales are baleen whales. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, they almost exclusively eat krill, which they strain out of huge water gulps through baleen plates.