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The most famous fictional tale about a whale is, of course, Moby Dick. Captain Ahab is obsessed with finding and killing the ...

It is probably a first in the cathedral's 1,000-year history – a giant model of a sperm whale hanging from the ceiling.

Massachusetts politicians were fine with the economic costs of protecting endangered species – but only when it meant ...

NC charter fishermen and officials expressed concern that the rule, intended to protect endangered North Atlantic right ...

Germany has deployed an underwater stealth drone named “Blue Whale” to patrol the Baltic Sea in its latest attempt to confront Russian and Chinese saboteurs. As tensions rise over the cutting of ...

“The agencies assume, incorrectly, that no North Atlantic right whales will suffer injury or death as a result of the Atlantic Shores South project,” Stern said in a statement. “The evidence ...

There are only 72 whales left, after two died in November. “Even since this case was filed and was heard the population has declined further,” Dyna Tuytel, a lawyer with the environmental law charity ...

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The fate of two killer whales is uncertain following the closure of a marine zoo in France on Sunday. Campaigners and the zoo's managers have been locked in disagreement about what should happen ...