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While the afternoons blazed, Tim sailed Melville’s waves of prose, alert to the rumble of an epic whale beneath their surface.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

“We had increased whale entanglements because the whales, again, are closer to shore, they’re coming into contact with more ships and more fishing gear,” Leising said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026

Its mission was to conduct research on whale stocks, particularly around the Falkland Islands, and it was purpose-built in Beverley for the task.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026

Most major cruise lines offer trips to the 49th state, where travelers can explore the tallest mountain in the U.S. or go whale watching on the coast.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 11, 2026

The blue whale has the largest heart, weighing more than a thousand pounds, the size of an average dairy cow.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

The bottom line: Prediction markets are being seriously skewed by what their whales are hoping will be the case rather than what they truly believe will come to pass.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026

A recent report by Wildlife and Countryside Link found thousands of protected seabirds, more than 1,000 porpoises and dolphins, and dozens of whales were dying through bycatch each year.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026

“We had increased whale entanglements because the whales, again, are closer to shore, they’re coming into contact with more ships and more fishing gear,” Leising said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026

Most of the 485 fossils the scientists catalogued were from different species of beaked whales.

From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026

Dolphins, porpoises, and certain types of whales use echolocation to navigate the ocean.

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

I took a fast look around and fought the wheel of my car to turn aside, but he whaled into my tail and we went sliding forward.

From Highways in Hiding by Smith, George Oliver

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

Once it became clear that the survivors of the Mentor were American, the Ngarchelongese agreed to help them get home by building them a canoe to supplement their whaling boat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 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

Generations of whaling all but eliminated the western population — leaving only about 150 alive today off of East Asia and Russia.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2026

They had a few miles of frozen marsh to cross, and then they were within sight of the whaling station.

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