In a world full of bad news, there’s been good news in whale conservation. Many of the great whales are coming back. In fact, some populations have been recovering faster than anyone imagined they ...

The seemingly endless size and depth of the ocean can conceal breathtaking creatures so enormous that it can be difficult for us to even imagine them. One such animal is the fin whale, a true ...

A short-fin male pilot whale has died in Southern Thailand after ingesting more than 17 lbs of plastic bags and packaging, a sobering casualty of the waste littering the world's oceans. During an ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The recently hunted fin whale was a male measuring 19.6 m (64.3 ft) and weighing more than 55.8 metric tons, according to Japanese media. It was ...

Of all the kinds of whales that could have washed onto the Anchorage mudflats, a fin whale is one of the most mysterious. Whale strandings are fairly routine in Alaska. But the latest, in which a ...

How much squid do short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus) off the coast of Hawai’i need to consume each day to survive and are there sufficient squid to sustain the population? Knowing ...