These gentle giants have poor eyesight and may not be able to see fishnets and boats with which they have fatal encounters.

In their study, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the group dissected and tested the left eye of a humpback whale. After cutting open the eye of the juvenile whale ...

By measuring a humpback whale eye specimen, University of North Carolina Wilmington and Duke University researchers found ...

Humpback whales are able to see and visually process large, simple shapes as long as they are perceived from a distance. This ...

Despite their massive size and large eyes, humpback whales may not see their ocean world as clearly as once thought.

Researchers measuring the dissected humpback whale eye. Michael Spencer/UNCW “[A low CPD] is bad for a human, but not bad for a whale at all,” says Thomas Cronin, a visual ecologist at the ...

Cronin also notes that nets may be even harder for whales to discern because northern coastal waters where migratory whales feed tend to be dark and murky. He says the study is a good baseline for ...

To understand humpback vision, Bolin and his team dissected the eye of a juvenile humpback whale that died on a North Carolina beach in 2011. While most whales that wash ashore have been dead for ...

According to a new study on humpback whales, the reason they continue to swim into fishing gear is that their eye has a large ...