Chrissy Lovitt, a captain with Maui Ocean Adventures, caught the moment her dog, Macy, met a curious humpback whale.

Heartbreaking footage has surfaced showing a humpback whale calf struggling to free itself from a netting that seems hopelessly wrapped around its head off the Hawaiian island of Oahu. The footage ...

This is an underwater photo of a humpback whale entangled in heavy-gauge line with buoys with a trailing bridle hundreds of feet long. NOAA Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine ...

Edward Lyman reports for duty at the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary on Maui. He is the acting Regional Large Whale Entanglement Response Coordinator for National Oceanic ...

When whales migrate from their cold feeding grounds to warmer breeding waters, they carry tons of nutrients in their urine.

There, in the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary, the input of nutrients -- tons of pee, skin, dead bodies and poop -- from whales roughly double what is transported by ...

After samples were collected, the whale was buried since it was "unable to be towed back to" the beach due to shallow water.

Thousands of humpback whales travel from a vast area where they feed in the Gulf of Alaska to a more restricted area in Hawaii, where they breed. There, in the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale ...

Researchers looked at whales’ input of nutrients from urine, skin, dead bodies and poo at the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary. They found that the whales had brought ...

For example, thousands of humpback whales travel from a vast area where they feed in the Gulf of Alaska to a more restricted area in Hawaii, where they breed. There, in the Hawaiian Islands ...