A section of skin and blubber from a fin whale rests on the mud near Anchorage on November 18, 2024. NOAA biologists have been examining the animal which showed up there in recent days.

Officials are asking beachgoers to keep a distance from a 35- to 40-foot fin whale that washed ashore on Torrance Beach on Saturday evening and later died. “Due to its size & location it is ...

The fin whale – the second largest whale species in the world – became stranded on the surf line at Torrance Beach in California around 6 p.m. where it reportedly appeared in distress.

The carcass of the juvenile female fin whale, measuring almost 47 feet, was found Saturday night along the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail in Anchorage.

Several dozen ravens surround on the carcass of a fin whale on the Anchorage mudflats on March 31, 2025, days after an effort to recover the skeleton began. (Marc Lester / ADN) ...

People aboard the Oct. 6 Hyannis Whale Watcher Cruise observed a fin whale perform a high fluking dive, the group said in a Facebook post, calling it “one of the rarest” sightings of the season.

A 40-foot fin whale died after washing up on Torrance Beach in Southern California: Los Angeles County lifeguards. Experts want to know why.

People aboard the Oct. 6 Hyannis Whale Watcher Cruise observed a fin whale perform a high fluking dive, the group said in a Facebook post, calling it “one of the rarest” sightings of the season.

Fin whales rarely lift their tails out of the water on any dive, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Getty Images/iStockphoto Whale watchers in Massachusetts were ...

People aboard the Oct. 6 Hyannis Whale Watcher Cruise observed a fin whale perform a high fluking dive, the group said in a Facebook post, calling it “one of the rarest” sightings of the season.