Gibbie Fraser was a teenager when he decided the best way to afford a motorbike like his friends on the west side of Shetland was to join the crew of a whaling vessel. Months later, at the age of 16, ...

Fin whales feeding off the coast of Elephant Island, Antarctica BBC Fin whales are the second largest species of whale on Earth, right behind the mammoth blue whale.

In addition, the whale research team kept watch on deck – and spotted a group of circa 50 southern fin whales near Elephant Island in the Weddell Sea off the Antarctic Peninsula, and later more ...

Hunted nearly to extinction during 20th century whaling, the Antarctic blue whale, the world's largest animal, went from a population size of roughly 200,000 to little more than 300. The most ...

A Whale Feeding Frenzy in Antarctica Signals a Conservation Success. Once hunted to the brink of extinction, fin whales in the Southern Ocean have rebounded and returned to their historical ...

Looking to escape? Here’s a recent trip a local reader took to explore Argentina and Antarctica. Check it out, then find more reader travel inspiration at www.mercurynews.com/tag/wish-you-were-here/.

As the founder of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and the Captain Paul Watson Foundation, Watson has long stood at the ...

Whales and humans tend to go after the same dense groups of krill in Antarctica’s Southern Ocean. Youenn Kerdavid/Sea Shepherd Global ...

Sydney’s harbor becomes a humpback highway in winter as the whales migrate from feeding grounds in Antarctica to breeding ...