Baleen whales evolved bristly baleen plates instead of teeth, which filter or trap krill, plankton and small fish inside ...

Traditionally, health assessments of great whales employed invasive tools such as biopsies and satellite tagging. A new approach is needed to assess overall welfare in a noninvasive way. Fin whale.

A beached whale has died after getting stranded for a third time on the same stretch of the coastline. The 30ft (10m) fin whale was spotted again on a sand bank near the Dee estuary in Flintshire ...

According to the museum, it was the first time in 31 years for a whale carcass longer than 10 meters to be found in Osaka Bay since the 1990 discovery of a 19-meter-long finback. “We want to ...

The Omura’s whale is one of the smallest members of the rorqual whales, and about which very little is known. Scientists only identified the Omura’s as a species in its own right in 2003.

The IWC designated the fin whale as a species for protection from overhunting in 1976. Japan said its recent stock surveys confirmed a sufficient recovery of fin whale populations in the North ...