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Iceland’s largest commercial whaling company, Hvalur hf., has said it will not hunt any fin whales in the summer of 2025. Hvalur hf. exports almost all of its whale meat to Japan. However Loftsson, ...

Data shows the Cape Cod Bay buoy has detected a right whale every day since Feb. 23. The Cape Ann buoy has picked up sounds from fin whales on most days, with possible detections of right and ...

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 ...

It's the third dead whale to wash up on Delaware shores this year. A juvenile humpback beached itself and died just north of the Indian River Inlet, in Delaware Seashore State Park on Thursday, March ...

The frequency was much higher than a blue whale or its cousin, the fin whale, leaving scientists ... Gerard Soury / Getty Images Before the arrival of genomics 30 years ago, marine biologists ...

Since the IWDG was founded in 1990, it has recorded thousands of sightings of different whale species off Ireland. For example, 5,856 minke whales, 2,111 fin whales and 1,705 humpback whales have ...

On Thursday, dozens of volunteers gathered on the Anchorage mudflats to cut apart the 47-foot-long juvenile fin whale that first washed up near the mouth of Ship Creek four months ago, quickly ...

A large-scale floating solar farm in India is visible from space, according to newly released images from NASA. These images showcase the scale that some of these aquatic renewable energy ...

Some songs — like those of gray whales and humpbacks — are elaborate and higher-pitched. These songs are within the hearing range of orcas and can potentially be used to track down their prey. Other ...