The Tongan Fluke Collective (TFC) aims to utilize photographers visiting the Kingdom of Tonga and photographing humpback whales during the breeding and calving season to compile a database of fluke shots for scientific purposes.

Demands stop short of phasing out cetacean program entirely

Whales assemble in California’s busy shipping lanes, increasing potential collisions

It’s an adventure. You swim like a champion, trying to be as streamlined as possible and glide effortlessly through the water. Your heart rate is already at its limits and your breathing borders on hyperventilation. Your focus is on the sperm whale and its blow, which you can see just as you slide into the water. You are hoping to get the animal in front of your camera, but it is a bit of gamble.

A Cuvier's beaked whale has set a new deep diving record for a sea mammal by plunging nearly three kms below the ocean surface.

Humpback whales in the oceans of the North Pacific, North Atlantic and Southern Hemisphere are much more distinct from each other than previously thought

Tusk revealed to be sensitive to temperature and chemical differences in external environment

Nearly 50 blue whales have been observed regularly feeding in the sea between the top of the South Island and lower Taranaki.

With the re-discovery of Mesoplodon hotaula, there are now 22 recognised species of beaked whales.

Conservationists condemn beer as immoral