SEATTLE (AP) – The Washington state town of Burien is stuck with the job of removing the reeking carcass of a fin whale that was apparently hit and killed by a ship in the Pacific and dragged into ...

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The seemingly endless size and depth of the ocean can conceal breathtaking creatures so enormous that it can be difficult for us to even imagine them. One such animal is the fin whale, a true ...

A dead 46-foot whale washed ashore on the Oregon coast with numerous wounds this week — though researches made clear the injuries likely didn’t kill the mammal, officials said. The remains of a fin ...

In the waters off California's Monterey Bay, some of the oceans' most iconic creatures have gone unusually silent — and researchers say it's a warning sign we can't afford to ignore. Whale songs, long ...

SEATTLE —For more than a century, killer whales have been understood to be just one worldwide species, Orcinus orca, with many types. But now, after decades of work, scientists have determined the ...

It’s now been more than a month since a 47-foot fin whale washed up on the Anchorage coastal flats, near the mouth of Fish Creek. In those first days after the whale’s Nov. 16 appearance, the ...

A massive fin whale that washed up on private property near Great Island in West Yarmouth earlier this month has now been returned to the sea, where she will rest in the depths east of Cape Cod, ...

An industrial vacuum machine, normally used to excavate buried utility cables, was used to help remove the soil from around the head which was then craned out of a 2m-deep (6.5ft) hole on university ...

Fin whales are some of the largest whales in the ocean. These massive whales were among the most popular targets for whalers up until the last century, when fin whales were listed as an endangered ...

Massachusetts (WBZ) — Researchers are listening for critically endangered North Atlantic right whales off the coast of Massachusetts with the help of two new buoys in the water. The high-tech buoys ...