"Big Mama" and her eighth calf have migrated back to PNW waters! They were recently spotted near San Juan Islands.

The Pacific Whale Watch Association (PWWA) has announced the arrival of the first humpback whale calf of the 2025 season in ...

Whale watchers spotted a new whale calf Wednesday afternoon, in Haro Strait, between Canada’s Sidney Island and Washington ...

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

SEATTLE — The first humpback calf of the whale watching season was spotted in the Salish Sea earlier this week. The baby, ...

The whale affectionately known as Big Mama and credited for helping the great “humpback comeback” of the species in the ...

“She was first seen off Victoria in 1997, and was one of the first humpbacks to return to the Salish Sea after the end of ...

Move over Moby Dick. Big Mama, the first humpback whale to have returned to the North Pacific's Salish Sea after decades of absence, is telling a new story about the global threat to whale ...

The humpback whale has the whale equivalent of nearsightedness, which puts it at risk of being snarled in fishing gear.

ALSO READ: Video captures ‘rarely seen’ mama whale and calf near North Carolina coast An examination, called a necropsy, was being conducted on the 31-foot (9-meter) whale on the beach to ...

A well-known humpback whale has returned to the waters of the Salish Sea, this time with a new calf in tow. The whale, identified as BCY0324, or “Big Mama,” got her namesake for being the mother of ...