The baiji (Chinese: 白鱀豚; pinyin: báijìtún (help · info), Lipotes vexillifer, Lipotes meaning “left behind”, vexillifer “flag bearer”) is a functionally extinct species of freshwater dolphin formerly found only in the Yangtze River in China.

In some situations a whale will continue to suckle from the mothers nipple even when the mother stops lactating and producing milk. In these cases whales often form a psychological dependency that takes longer than average to grow out of, however eventually all whales separate from this psychological bond.

A humpback whale which was freed from almost certain death by three men off the coast of California repaid the favour to its rescuers with a …

Humpback whales, Megaptera novaeangliae, are found in all of the world’s oceans, although they generally prefer near shore and near-island habitats for …

Department of Fisheries and Oceans officials will be on the Bay of Fundy shoreline in Kings County Tuesday morning, where a humpback whale was found dead. The whale was found Sunday on the shore near Ogilvie, west of Harbourville.

The humpback whale was very nearly extinguished from the planet during the 18 th and 19 th centuries due to humans hunting—prior research has suggested that population levels dropped to 10 percent of pre-hunting days.

A humpback whale, part of the rorqual family of whales, swims in the ocean.

The moment a 25-ton humpback whale pushed a snorkeller to safety from a 15ft tiger shark was captured on camera. Biologist Nan Hauser was swimming off the coast of Rarotonga, in the Cook Islands, when the giant creature …

The 40ft humpback whale that spent the night trapped in a California harbor has now returned to the sea, delighted authorities have said.. The marine mammal – described as a ‘healthy ‘ by wildlife expert Jen Levine – swam into Ventura Harbor, 60 miles northwest of Los Angeles on Saturday at around 4pm.

Nan Hauser is the President and Director of the Center for Cetacean Research and Conservation.Her home base is in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, where she is the Principal Investigator for the Cook Islands Whale Research Project and Director of the Cook Islands Whale & Wildlife Centre.