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Whale season is in full swing, but tourist boat operators and citizen scientists are most excited about the increasing number of less social whales sighted this year.

A surfer has jumped into action to help alert authorities after another whale was caught in shark nets — the fifth this season. But the Queensland government says it has no plans to remove the nets.

The whale watching season on the NSW far south coast is underway early with tours booked off the coasts of Bermagui, Merimbula and Eden.

Why don’t whales have teeth like we do? asked by Henry, 6 years old.

Analysis of photos taken of a whale carcass at Mallacoota, in Victoria's east, show that the animal is female, while the famous albino whale Migaloo is male.

Despite the perils of being an albino whale, the 40-tonne, 15-metre humpback made it to adulthood and is believed to be aged in his 30s.

A whale that washed up dead on a beach in Victoria's east is a sub-adult female and not famous albino humpback Migaloo.

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A white whale carcass has washed up on a beach in far-east Victoria, prompting questions about whether it might be the well-known white whale, Migaloo.

Australians have watched in horror this week as two separate humpback whales were tangled up in Queensland shark nets on the same day. These put the number of whales caught in Queensland shark nets to four this season – that we know about.

The large lad was last seen two years ago.