Quick facts about whales. Where they live: In oceans around the world What they eat: A huge range of animals, from tiny plankton to giant squid How big they are: Between 7 and 100 feet (2 to 30 ...

5 fast facts about whales. Cuvier's beaked whales hold the record for the deepest-diving mammal.They can go nearly 10,000 feet (3,000 m) below the water's surface — about 10 times deeper than ...

Meat from fin whales caught for the first time in nearly 50 years off Japan’s northern coast fetched up to more than $1,300 per kilogram (2.2 lbs) at auction Thursday.. Japan’s Fisheries ...

In a world full of bad news, there’s been good news in whale conservation. Many of the great whales are coming back. In fact, ...

Fin whales are the second-largest whale species, smaller only than blue whales. Fast swimmers that can eat two tons of food a day, they grow up to 85 feet long, weigh 40 to 80 tons and live for 80 ...

Fin whales are the second largest whales in the world after blue whales. They can grow to 70 to 80 feet (21 to 24 meters) long and weigh about 50 tons, or 100,000 pounds (45,000 kilograms).

Fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus quoyi), also known as rorqual, are among the 16 species of baleen whales, which filter out their food such as minute krill and fish in their mouths through ...

Fin whales are the second largest species of whale on Earth, right behind the mammoth blue whale. Adults can grow up to 90 feet long, a little bigger than two school buses.

An enormous fin whale has been found washed up dead on a beach in the U.K., days after it was seen swimming off the coast of Cornwall. The whale was discovered by local surfers on Fistral Beach in ...

Letting it decompose shows a keener understanding for what to do in these situations than in 1970 when officials opted to use dynamite to blow up a dead whale that washed ashore in southern Oregon.