Humpback whales may look like gentle giants, but each year they undertake nature's most extreme crash diet, shedding around 36% of their mass in less than two months – somehow avoiding the tissue ...

New research into the energy use of humpback whales during their annual migrations has found they lose 11,000kg of blubber - which is equivalent to the energy obtained after feeding on 57,000 kg of ...

Not long ago, spotting a humpback whale in Arctic seas felt like winning a lottery ticket. In the early 2000s, University of Southern Denmark whale researcher Olga Filatova spent years searching ...