Fin whales, named for the noticeable fin near the ... which can hold a wealth of information about the animal’s diet, environment and life. Flannery described the team collecting samples of ...

A huge whale carcass has washed up on a British beach as experts say its too rotten to be taken away and locals warn its beginning to smell. The creature - which is believed to be a minke or fin ...

The body of a 16-tonne fin whale washed up on 13th Beach, on Victoria's Bellarine Peninsula, on September 13. The state government had decided to let the carcass decompose naturally, but ...

The scientists also discovered signs of orca tooth rake marks on the dorsal fin of a fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus). While there are no observations of orcas hunting fin whales, orcas are known ...

But blue whales, humpbacks, and fin whales are on the endangered list, and the Northern right whale is just about extinct – only about 350 of them are left on Earth. "That's why every whale ...

Webb and Payne’s original paper on acoustic herd theory demonstrated that fin whale vocalizations—low-frequency sounds that carry long distances—could theoretically travel an astonishing 700 ...

Fin whales rarely lift their tails out of the water on any dive, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Getty Images/iStockphoto Whale watchers in Massachusetts were ...