whale

“We humans are limited by our input-output rate—we learn only two bits a second, so a ton is lost. To a machine we must seem like slowed-down whale songs.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

The whale was first spotted near Palos Verdes Thursday by passengers and crew on a midday whale watching tour.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

This is the second entangled whale the tour operator has witnessed since August, the company said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

Nelmes said the way to spot a humpback whale was by the overall shape, white pectoral fins, and knobbly skin also known as barnacles, as well as the whales' behaviour.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

Best of all was the humpback whale Jackson spotted a couple of years ago.

From "I Survived the Great Alaska Earthquake, 1964" by Lauren Tarshis

These humpback whales, they’re right underneath these tiny little boats, and if they wanted to, they could just flick their tail, and you’d be off in the sea.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

He seemed to be an expert at everything, including astronomy, architecture, acting, cars, taxidermy, music, masonry and whales.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Ottawa has also worked to shore up ocean protection funding and rules to protect marine life that could be affected by increased coastal tanker traffic, including the endangered Southern Resident killer whales.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Similar observations remain far less common in published research involving baleen whales such as humpbacks.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

But when they tried to dive down to safety they found the army of whales was waiting below.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

Numbers of these 16-foot-long marine mammals, hunted for their oil, meat, and baleen, had fallen to an estimated low of 1,200 animals in the North Pacific—a heavily whaled region—by the 1960s.

From National Geographic ● Sep. 28, 2023

Today’s blue whales find themselves in a whaled and warming ocean.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 31, 2020

Facing Erin's 7,800-plus yards but massively wide fairways—60 yards in some cases—players whaled away with impunity when typical winds failed to blow.

From Golf Digest ● Jun. 4, 2018

At one, Chadwick Boseman whaled on the drums and Lupita N’yongo was hailed as the best dancer.

From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2018

So I rolled up my sleeves and spit on my hands and got a good holt on that war club and I whaled away at that little ball agin, and by chowder I hit it.

From Uncle Josh's Punkin Centre Stories by Cal Stewart

“There is a course on international whaling law but none on women’s rights internationally,” she told the black-tie gathering.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

Whitby began a long and profitable history with whaling during the 18th Century and despite the controversial practice being outlawed in 1986 to protect the species, the arch remains popular with both visitors and locals.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

This includes for the animals living in these "chemosynthetic" communities, whose numbers had been thought to have been drastically reduced by human whaling, she added.

From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026

Even decades later, the legacy of whaling continues to shape whale populations, affecting not only how many whales exist today but also which males succeed in fathering calves.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 5, 2026

The robot’s computer brain retrieved information on the history of whaling, and she calculated the shark’s age to be over five hundred years.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown