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

By Shreya DasguptaSpoorthy Raman Iceland’s largest commercial whaling company, Hvalur hf., has said it will not hunt any fin whales in the summer of 2025. In December 2024, Iceland’s government ...

It is still not clear what killed the juvenile female fin whale, first brought in ... stripped away the flesh around the whale’s giant jaw bone. So many people had visited the whale, posed ...

Fresh fin whale meat was auctioned in Japan for the first time in nearly 50 years, with prices reaching over $1,300 per kilogram on Thursday. This marks a significant moment for Japan's whaling ...

Around Feb. 28, a dead juvenile fin whale washed up in the mud at Pigeon Point, just north of the Delaware Memorial Bridge in New Castle County. A necropsy on the humpback whale indicated it may ...

Japan’s Fisheries Agency this year added fin whales to its list of three whale species that can be legally hunted as the country expands commercial whaling along its coast. Japan resumed ...

Ocean-bottom seismology stations are designed to monitor earthquakes, and often pick up whale songs. Researchers have previously used these incidental recordings to track fin whale movements, but this ...

It is still not clear what killed the juvenile female fin whale, first brought in by ... stripped away the flesh around the whale's giant jaw bone. So many people had visited the whale, posed ...