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whale

[weyl, hweyl] / weɪl, ʰweɪl /


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“They do come through when the water is warm — mostly during El Niño,” he said of whale sharks, which he last saw about three years ago.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 13, 2026

One of the senior researchers on the expedition, Andrew DeVogelaere, said he was focused on the seafloor, “thinking about the whale pits,” when the squid suddenly showed up.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 2026

Katy McMonagle, one of the archaeologists who dug the whale head out, said the fossil was difficult to move and very heavy.

From BBC Sep. 4, 2026

More than two million tourists travel to the islands each year—drawn by the clear waters where they can observe marine life like turtles, manta rays and whale sharks.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

The whale swam away toward the horizon, where the line between sea and sky merged into the same deepening blue.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook

"If you start looking at long-lived species like elephants, whales and bats, you start finding ways that nature has actually already resolved a lot of these problems in human health," Vazquez added.

From Science Daily Sep. 12, 2026

"I've seen beaked whales in the Azores. I've seen them at the Bay of Biscay. I've never seen them around Ireland. They've never been recorded in this area. So how did it get here?"

From BBC Sep. 4, 2026

In a study published in Science Advances on Wednesday, researchers equipped six of the toothed whales, sometimes called "unicorns of the sea," with satellite transmitters, and had them explore remote East Greenland waters.

From Barron's Aug. 26, 2026

Ever since that Ontario park, Marineland, shuttered in 2024, there has been a scramble to find homes for 30 beluga whales who were once kept there.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 24, 2026

With no other choice, the crew began climbing onto the whales.

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

In that bout, both men whaled away and scored two knockdowns apiece before Matthysse knocked out Molina in the 11th round.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 2, 2015

Then Becker who had perished twice before on feeble taps to the infield, whaled out a home run to the intense jubilation of his mates.

From Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour by Lester Chadwick

“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

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

Much of what scientists know about whale behavior comes from studying populations that had already been heavily impacted by whaling.

From Science Daily Mar. 5, 2026

Compared to the sleek, minimalist driving environment of a Tesla Model Y, the Crosstrek’s looks like the helm of a whaling ship.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 23, 2026

The whaling stations on the island were all on the northeast coast.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong




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