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 ...

It was a sight no one expected after two great white sharks were spotted off the coast of Gloucester, Massachusetts.

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

Boaters off the New Hampshire coast have a whale of a tail to tell after a humpback whale slammed into a fishing boat and a pair of teen brothers caught the whole thing on video, then rescued the ...

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.

The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is the largest mammal ever to have lived. These aquatic giants can grow to be 100 feet long and weigh up to 200 tons. Found in oceans worldwide, blue whales ...

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 ...