The 46-foot-long male belongs to the second-largest whale species. It will be left to decompose naturally as scientists work to determine why it died.

On the water’s surface bobs a fleet of coracles — small, round bamboo fishing boats — alongside elegant, longer-prowed ...

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.

A dead fin whale that washed up on Pacific Beach in December 2023 is now being used by researchers to see how weather conditions impact whale movements.

Here’s what we know — and don’t know — about the fin whale that washed up on the Anchorage mudflats Scientists aren’t sure how the juvenile female whale died. Also unclear: how long the ...

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

The fin whale is the second-largest animal on the planet. Recently, scientists and filmmakers captured a feeding frenzy on video of some 300 fin whales off the coast of Antarctica.

Rouse is a necropsy biologist with Alaska Veterinary Services, and she’s part of a team trying to learn more about the young fin whale that washed up dead last weekend near downtown Anchorage.

A nearly 50-foot-long adolescent male fin whale washed up on Sunset Beach in Warrenton, Oregon, last week, entangled in rope and no longer alive. He has quickly become a local attraction, drawing ...