A whale died after straying into Japan's Osaka Bay last month, officials confirmed. Some experts noted the structure of Osaka Bay, which has many narrow passages, may make it difficult for stray ...

Join the community on Jan. 25 at 10 a.m. at Main Beach Park in Fernandina Beach for a unique opportunity to create a life-size North Atlantic right whale mosaic art ... on these 8 Japanese Master ...

Tokyo — The slow demise of a stray whale that spent its last days circling Osaka Bay not only saddened TV viewers across Japan, it also alarmed cetacean experts who called the whale the latest ...

Japanese freelance photographer Noriyuki Hayakawa ... The magnificent photos show the whale breaching as it swam with its pod. The 64-year-old shutterbug has been following the majestic mammals ...

KUSHIRO, Japan - File photo taken in September 2013 shows a minke whale landed in Kushiro, Hokkaido, in northern Japan. The Japanese government said on Nov. 18, 2014, that it will reduce the ...

The creature is a close cousin of the blue whale and has been given the formal scientific name Balaenoptera omurai, reports the journal Nature. Its Japanese discoverers say the 12-metre-long animal's ...