One of the most unique about whales is that they're the largest animals to ever exist on Earth — even bigger than the largest ...

Experts examining the 10 meters long animal, which died about 800m from the shoreline, say they are 95% sure it is a female sei whale. The animal was trapped in shallow water near the East ...

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 meat put on auction on Nov. 14 came from the most coveted “onomi” portion of a sei whale caught off Nemuro in eastern Hokkaido by the Nisshin Maru whaling ship. The whale meat was stored ...

I now report briefly the results of morphological observations on sei whale Siamese twins found on the Japanese whaling factory ship Nisshin Maru (Taiyo Fisheries Co.) in the Antarctic whaling ...

Researchers also created computer models of the sei whale’s vocalizations and matched them to recordings of similar whales taken in the wild. Whales' ancestors were land-dwellers about 50 ...

Japan set a combined catch quota of 379 for the three other whale species — minke, Bryde’s and sei whales. The country’s only large-scale whaling fleet operator Kyodo Senpaku Co. launched ...

Why are whales dying in record numbers? And is the crisis man made? Biologist Ella Al-Shamahi joins a specialist autopsy into the death of a 40-foot sei whale, washed up near Edinburgh.