EditorialA humpback whale is seen near a buoy fitted with sensors and microphones to detect whales, about 20 miles off San Francisco, on Sept. 19, 2022. (Dexter Hake/The New York Times)
EditorialA humpback whale is seen near a buoy fitted with sensors and microphones to detect whales, about 20 miles off San Francisco, on Sept. 19, 2022. (Dexter Hake/The New York Times)
EditorialMichelle Fournet, a marine acoustic ecologist at the University of New Hampshire who has been trying to decipher humpback whale communication, listens after dipping her hydrophone underwater, in Rye, N.H., Aug. 25, 2022. (Tristan Spinski/The New York Times)
EditorialA humpback whale surfaces while lunge feeding on menhaden, a small fish commonly referred to as bunker, off the New Jersey coast in the Atlantic Ocean, Sept. 7, 2018. (Dave Sanders/The New York Times)
EditorialA humpback whale surfaces while lunge feeding on menhaden, a small fish commonly referred to as bunker, off the New Jersey coast in the Atlantic Ocean, Sept. 7, 2018. (Dave Sanders/The New York Times)
EditorialThe carcass of a humpback whale on the Gulf of California, off the coast of San Felipe, Mexico, on Oct. 21, 2021. (Fred Ramos/The New York Times)
EditorialWater flows off the tail of a humpback whale as it dives below the surface near Juneau, Alaska, on Sept. 18, 2018. (Christopher Miller/The New York Times)
EditorialDiacope tiea. Humpback red snapper, Society Islands. Voyage autour du monde, exécuté par ordre du Roi, sur la corvette de Sa Majesté la Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825, sous le ministère de S. E. M. le marquis de Clermont-Ton...