Tagging humpback whales in Antarctica 'felt like a story of survival for all of us': Reporter's notebook ABC News' James Longman reports on scientists' conservation efforts.

Whale songs near Antarctic have become flat over the last 10 years and scientists said that climate change is a contributing factor.

The Southern Ocean encircling Antarctica is the world’s largest feeding ground for baleen whales – species like humpbacks that filter tiny organisms from seawater for food. In the 20th century ...

Now, large numbers of fin whales have returned to their ancestral feeding areas near Antarctica for the first time since then, scientists said. The population of fin whales in a survey area near ...

Recent whale deaths highlight risks from Antarctica’s booming krill fishery Pressure on krill stocks is building as a result of surging demand for omega-3 pills taken as dietary supplements, advances ...

Delighted scientists have discovered large pods of rare fin whales feeding together in Antarctica for the first time in nearly 50 years.

Trawling near Antarctica for krill — a crustacean central to the diet of whales and a critical buffer to global warming — has surged to a record and is fast approaching a never before reached ...

Researchers in Australia have significant concerns about local humpback whale populations in the Southern Ocean due to recent ...

How long tubes of mud - drilled out of the Antarctic seafloor - could reveal how the frozen continent is changing.

MIAMI – Two humpback whales were found dead and another seriously injured this year in huge nets used to collect krill for fishmeal and omega-3 pills near Antarctica, The Associated Press has ...