Once hunted to the brink of extinction, the humpback whale population has recovered extensively over the past half a century.

The addition of non-stop flights will lower ticket prices, and has already spawned investment in a host of new hotels to accommodate the expected rise in visitors ... More than 300 of their ...

Rescuers have freed a humpback whale that was caught up in a rope at a fish farm off the Isle of Skye. The mammal was spotted by a member of the public being in difficulty at the Invertote salmon ...

A humpback whale has got into difficulty after becoming entangled in rope at a fish farm off Skye. Organic Sea Harvest said it had suspended normal operations at its Invertote site in the north of ...

A member of staff spotted the humpback in difficulty and contacted British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) at around 7am on Thursday to raise the alarm. BDMLR medics are at the scene near Rigg ...

Humpback whales have been spotted making a splash ... It has sparked hopes that whale numbers are on the rise. However, others are concerned that their reappearance is a sign of changing patterns ...

A small international team of marine mammal scientists has found evidence that just 7% of the male humpback whales residing near New Caledonia, in the southwest Pacific, may have fathered offspring.