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Fin whales are the second-largest whale species, smaller only than blue whales. Fast swimmers that can eat two tons of food a day, they grow up to 85 feet long, weigh 40 to 80 tons and live for 80 ...

Since washing ashore in mid-November, scientists have harvested samples of everything from a fin whale, from the animal's heart, blubber, skin, baleen and lung.

NOAA researchers last had eyes on the whale on Dec. 23. At that time, her body was disintegrating but had a long way to go. After all, the fin whale is the second-largest mammal on earth.

The left eye of a dead fin whale was frozen shut prior to a necropsy on Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (Bill Roth / ADN) A dead fin whale rests on the frozen mudflats near Anchorage on Monday, Nov. 18, 2024.

Fin whales, considered endangered, regularly swim in the Gulf of Alaska and the Bering Strait.Every so often, minke whales, gray whales and humpbacks wash ashore in Alaska. But it’s unusual for ...

People across the UK are being invited to take part in nationwide effort to spot whales, dolphins and porpoises.

New Jersey Republicans and other opponents of shoreside wind turbines have proposed a moratorium of up to 60 days on construction to assess potential effects on whale mortality.

Fin whales are the second-largest whale species, smaller only than blue whales. Fast swimmers that can eat two tons of food a day, they grow up to 85 feet long, weigh 40 to 80 tons and live for 80 ...

A female fin whale that washed up on Pacific Beach in December is likely still floating off the coast of Southern California, according to NOAA researchers who attached a satellite buoy tracker to ...