The crab pot, on the other hand ... Neilson expects it to be about 3 or 4 years old — that's quite young, given the average lifespan of a humpback whale is 80 to 90 years.

A young humpback whale entangled in heavy ropes and buoys and anchored by a 300-pound crab pot was successfully saved ... that the four to five-year-old whale was trapped in ropes and dragging ...

The crab pot weighed 300 lbs ... It’s SEAK-5490, a juvenile whale about 3-4 years old, who was new to the Glacier Bay area this year. Its journey can be followed here.

On Wednesday, the fisheries service said it had identified the rope as gear belonging to a crab pot or lobster pot ... for more than half the 3-year-old right whale's life, digging into its ...

Ancient scavengers of the beached beasts turned their bones into implements that spread across a large area, researchers say.

Pack, a marine mammal researcher at the University of Hawai’i at Hilo, was photographing whales in Alaska’s Frederick Sound in July, he instantly recognized the flukes of an old friend.

Photo from Chengyu Wang, UnSplash Southern right whales can live to be more than 130 years old — which is decades longer than previously thought, according to new research. The marine animals ...

How long can these other whale species live? Industrial whaling, which ended only in the 1960s, removed old whales from the world’s whale populations. Though many whale populations are ...