Fin whales rarely lift their tails out of the water on any dive, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Getty Images/iStockphoto Whale watchers in Massachusetts were ...

A huge whale carcass has washed up on a British beach as experts say its too rotten to be taken away and locals warn its beginning to smell. The creature - which is believed to be a minke or fin ...

After an endangered fin whale washed up at Ten Mile Beach along the Mendocino coast last week, scientists determined that this member of the second-largest whale species on the planet was killed ...

The scientists also discovered signs of orca tooth rake marks on the dorsal fin of a fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus). While there are no observations of orcas hunting fin whales, orcas are known ...

The body of a 16-tonne fin whale washed up on 13th Beach, on Victoria's Bellarine Peninsula, on September 13. The state government had decided to let the carcass decompose naturally, but ...

Experts say they cannot remove a stranded dead whale from a beach. The animal, believed to be a minke or fin whale, washed up on Hartlepool's Headland beach on Sunday and remains there days later.