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Whales were being overhunted, and the price of whale oil rose alarmingly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 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

Video released by the US-based NGO Beneath The Waves shows one orca holding the tail of a sunfish, with its fellow whale then charging with full force into the rotund mola, which explodes into pieces.

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026

My first gray whale sighting was entirely accidental.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

The whale came up and bumped the boat again.

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

A group of killer whales have been documented blowing a sunfish to bits in an unusual underwater escapade offering never-before-seen insights into orca behaviour, according to research released Thursday.

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026

See these killer whales explode fish into pieces.

From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2026

Six beluga whales have arrived at aquariums in the United States after being moved from a closed Canadian marine park that could no longer care for the mammals.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Before I relocated to the Pacific Northwest, I had only seen whales and other wildlife common to this region on TV.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

An ocean teeming with sea life, from tiny coral polyps to massive whales to birds skimming the surface of the waves.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

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

Then I'll be a laurel-crowned hero, having whaled out the Yankees to a frizzle, and all the fair ones will be sighing for my hand and heart!

From Leah Mordecai by Abbott, Belle K. (Belle Kendrick)

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

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

California shut down the nation’s last whaling station in 1971.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2026

They couldn’t be sure what bay they were looking at, however, and to be sure of hitting the whaling stations, they kept to the east.

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