If you liked this story, share it with other people. The recently hunted fin whale was a male measuring 19.6 m (64.3 ft) and weighing more than 55.8 metric tons, according to Japanese media. It was ...

All the mountains of stuff that we ship across the oceans comes at a price: whale blood. A recent study in the journal Science calculates just how much, reporting that — thanks to the near-total ...

TOKYO, Nov 17 (Reuters) - The main ship in the whaling fleet of Japan, the world's biggest whaling nation, set out for the Antarctic on Monday for its annual hunt, Greenpeace said, amid criticism from ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia said on Monday it was "deeply disappointed" Japan had continued whaling in the Southern Ocean after anti-whaling activists published a photograph of a dead whale, and two ...

The death of a pregnant right whale that apparently was struck by a Navy ship off the Virginia coast and bled to death has prompted calls for speed limits for commercial and military ships along the ...