As they watched on, the beautiful whale - identified by many as a humpback owing to its large front flippers - breached several times as it swam past the coast of Hastings, East Sussex.

Watch as a humpback whale tangled in fishing line was freed. Staff from the NOAA Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary found the whale swimming off the Maui coast before leaping ...

Humpback whales are one of the largest animals on Earth ... The line was wrapped around its body and constricting its right pectoral flipper. The team removed the wrappings around the whale's ...

A humpback whale has been filmed splashing around ... alone or in pairs and are identifiable by their distinctive long flippers, which give them their scientific name ‘Megaptera novaeanglia ...

But baleen whales do grow teeth in the womb. Those teeth will be re-absorbed later on as the foetus develops, and the baleen will begin to grow.' The biggest foetus in the series was seven or eight ...

There has been rare sighting of a humpback whale in Manx waters for the ... water", allowing them to see the "entire body, head and flippers with only its tail remaining under the water", which ...

Watch as a humpback whale tangled in fishing line ... life experts struggled to remove the wire from around one of the whales flippers — something they described as “potentially life ...

Getty Two humpback whales swam to freedom after local responders ... The line was around the animal's body and constricting its right pectoral flipper, per The Maui News.

Once again, trained responders from the sanctuary jumped into action, this time discovering an adult humpback wrapped in an even heavier gauge line. The line was around the animal's body and ...

The other was an adult humpback whale with a mouth entanglement, and heavy-gauge, fishing line wrapped tight around its body, including its right pectoral flipper. Ultimate Whale Watch ...