A 47-foot male juvenile fin whale washed up dead on the shore of Point Reyes National Seashore, drawing a multi-agency ...

Whale watchers were delighted to see a large fin whale swimming off the waters of Shirley, B.C., last week – marking a rare sighting of the second largest creature in local waters.

New England Aquarium researchers recently documented what they say was a rare sighting of an endangered fin whale and its calf. Scientists on a July 24 aerial survey flew over the Northeast Canyons ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A massive fin whale that washed up on private property near Great Island in West Yarmouth earlier this month has now been returned ...

Usually there's safety in numbers, but it doesn't always work that way. Fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) filter-feed on ...

Of all the kinds of whales that could have washed onto the Anchorage mudflats, a fin whale is one of the most mysterious. Whale strandings are fairly routine in Alaska. But the latest, in which a ...

They are one of the largest and fastest marine mammals on Earth — but one fin whale on a recent day decided to stop and check out passengers aboard a boat off Dana Point. The up-close encounter ...

Earthquake sensors on the ocean floor were built to track tectonic plates, but scientists just discovered they have been ...

New video shows a dead whale that washed ashore in Delaware. Drone pilot RITTER Dragonfly Dronography released a video of the dead whale just north of the Delaware Memorial Bridge in the Delaware ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: First recorded in 1989, a whale has been vocalizing at 52 hertz—a much higher frequency than is typical for blue or fin whales—for decades.