and the Scottish Association for Marine Science are collecting data to better understand the distribution of foraging fin whales, Antarctic krill and fishing vessels. Team members from the ...

For the first time since whaling was banned, dozens of southern fin whales have been filmed feasting together in a "thrilling" Antarctic spectacle, hailed by scientists on July 7 as a sign of hope ...

such as fin and sei whales, so the new study's methods could provide a framework for similar analyses for those whale species too. There is still a lot scientists don't know about the Antarctic ...

When Antarctic explorer and whaler Carl Larsen ... killing humpback whales close to the coast first (1904-1920), then blue and fin whales further offshore (1920-1945), and finally the less ...

TOKYO (AP) — Meat from fin whales caught for the first time in ... largely subsided after Japan switched from much-criticized Antarctic “research whaling” — seen as a cover for commercial ...

In the Antarctic, pod members cooperate to make ... gulping fish before the orcas could pick them off, and the fin whales merely showed their curved fins as they caught a quick breath before ...

Atlas Ocean Voyages, the leader in yacht expedition cruising, announces Polar Expeditions by Atlas to Antarctica beginning ...

I think the 20th century pattern of moving from blue whales to fin whales to sei whales and ... This species was exploited but not depleted in the Antarctic in the 20th century, and is not ...

Australian wildlife officers have made the difficult decision to euthanize 90 false killer whales stranded on a ... at the Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania.

The agency decided to propose adding fin whales to the allowable catch list ... the quota and fewer than the number once hunted in the Antarctic and the northwestern Pacific under the research ...

A fin popped out of the ... Unlike the common minke whale, Antarctic minkes don’t have white markings on their flippers, and they are some of the smallest whales in their family which includes ...

MEAT from fin whales caught for the first time in nearly ... have largely subsided after Japan switched from much-criticised Antarctic “research whaling” – seen as a cover for commercial ...