A young humpback whale has a new lease on life after fisheries officers worked for hours to cut away a massive entanglement of prawn traps and ropes near Powell River, B.C. on Sunday night. Boaters alerted Fisheries and Oceans Canada after spotting the distressed 500-kilogram juvenile male,

It's not just hard rockers that can form supergroups. Humpback whales seem to like it too, though scientists don't know why.

A humpback whale, affectionately dubbed "Timmy" by German media, was successfully released into the North Sea on Saturday after months of being stranded in shallow waters off Germany. The whale was first spotted near Germany's Baltic Sea coast on 3 March,