whale

“We’re setting sail, comin’ ’round the horn / The white whale, gonna let it go,” he sings on the Stonesy “Phantom Limb.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

As the Orange County whale watchers were enjoying their unusual brush with warm-water orcas, a kayaker to the north had a brush with a great white shark.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Learn about whale biology: If you’ve seen or heard of the movie Whalefall, in which a scuba diver is swallowed by a whale, you have probably wondered whether the premise is at all plausible.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026

Tofino was the last captive whale in Canada.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

It was like being shot through the blowhole of a huge whale!

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

Not just because they towered overhead, the biggest dwarfing a stack of 10 blue whales.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Social media footage showed the whales traveling in a pod and within feet of a few boats, leaving guests awed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Another challenge also looms: federal regulations aimed at protecting endangered North Atlantic right whales, which migrate along the East Coast and risk entanglement in the vertical lines from lobster traps to surface buoys.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

Enjoy your night, and watch out for hungry whales!

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026

So the sharks and the whales and the squid and the fish all turned and swam away.

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

Sock, whose nicknames are "J Sizzle" and "Showtime," whaled away on everything.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2014

It seems pretty hard, after a fellow has had his life almost whaled out of him, to say he is sorry.

From Deerfoot in The Mountains by John Steeple Davis

“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

According to a newspaper report from 1964, the original bones, donated by a Norwegian whaling company, were those of a whale killed in Antarctic waters.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 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

The Browns had a hand in everything from ironmaking and rum distilling to whaling and the slave trade.

From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026

Amid the same clinking and laughter, a new story began about a child named Billy Marvel, on an American whaling ship.

From "The Marvels" by Brian Selznick