A sei whale in front of the distinctive backdrop of Cape Pembroke. Photos: Caroline Weir Acoustic research by wildlife charity, Falklands Conservation (FC), and the non-profit African Aquatic ...

On July 1, Japan announced commercial whaling quotas authorizing the annual slaughter of 25 sei whales, 187 Bryde’s whales, and 171 minke whales. The IWC’s underlying treaty, the International ...

The giant blue-grey sei whales have made a triumphant return to the waters off Argentina's Patagonian coast, more than a century after relentless hunting drove them to the brink of extinction in ...

Sei whales, which typically inhabit offshore, deep-water areas, are still classified as endangered on the International Union for Conservation’s Red List of Threatened species The coastal waters ...

or "voice boxes", that had been carefully removed from three carcasses of stranded whales - a minke, a humpback and a sei whale. They then blew air through the massive structures to produce the sound.

At least one humpback whale is making its way along the Garden City and Myrtle Beach coasts, with at least two official ...

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Hunted nearly to extinction during 20th century whaling, the Antarctic blue whale, the world's largest animal, went from a ...