Enormous, gentle, and playful, right whales have had the misfortune of being defined, even named, according to their value as hunted rather than living creatures. Whalers named the species thinking ...

The right whales migrate, and usually arrive in Cape Cod Bay off Massachusetts early in the winter and stay until around the ...

Once a school of minke whales was sighted, the Japanese identified one or two for killing, using “harpoons with a 30g penthrite grenade”. More than 120 pregnant whales were slaughtered in the ...

Activists have called Japan's programme "an illegal whale hunt" Japanese hunters caught and killed 122 pregnant minke whales as part of its Antarctic summer "field survey". A report sent to the ...