Second only in size to the blue whale, seeing a fin whale surface from the ocean's depths can leave you spellbound!

The fin whale joins four other species the country ... “Japan now proposes to kill the second largest animal on the planet, despite the global ban on commercial whaling and the nation’s ...

"The fin whale is not common in the North Sea therefore for it to be found in Yorkshire would indicate there is something very wrong with the animal, and it's most likely suffering from ...

A mysterious whale that has puzzled scientists for decades may not be an anomaly, but a clue to what climate change is doing beneath the waves.

If an animal displayed the features of two species ... blue is looking for a mate and she can’t find a blue whale but there’s fin whales all over the place, she’ll choose one of them.” ...

It's the third dead whale to wash up on Delaware shores this year. A juvenile humpback beached itself and died just north of ...

Students in the program regularly work on animals like harbor seals or sea otters, but the chance to dissect a fin whale was a “once in a lifetime” opportunity, she said. The smell ...

Students in the program regularly work on animals like harbor seals or sea otters, but the chance to dissect a fin whale was a "once in a lifetime" opportunity, she said. The smell, previously ...

The inspections’ purpose was to promote improved animal welfare during whaling. The results of these inspections were ... On June 20, Minister Svavarsdóttir announced that she was suspending the ...

“The market for Icelandic fin whale meat in Japan has been struggling ... at U.S.-based advocacy group International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), told Mongabay by email.

With a call as loud as a large ship, fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) are among the noisiest creatures in the sea. For some seismologists who monitor earthquakes by recording seafloor vibrations, ...

The coins are produced y Pobjoy Mint. The fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) is the second-largest animal in the world after the blue whale. It is the fasting swimming of all the large whales and ...