The discovery led to an investigation by Norway's domestic intelligence agency, which later said that the whale was likely to have been trained by the Russian army as he seemed accustomed to humans.

Blue whales - the largest animals on Earth - are making their home in a part of the Indian Ocean where they were wiped out by whaling decades ago. Researchers and filmmakers in the Seychelles ...

Norway has hunted whales in its own waters for centuries ... Inspectors were replaced by an onboard “blue box” that records vessel position, engine speed, direction, harpoon shots, and the weight of ...

As Earth’s largest animals, blue whales are mighty big eaters, gulping tonnes of food each day. They also now are ingesting huge amounts of plastic, according to scientists, due to the alarming ...

Norway uses another legal loophole and simply ... although there are exceptions: for example blue whales in the southern hemisphere, or the right whales off the East coast of the Americas.

Norway's whaling fleet will catch only half of its quota this season. The government set a quota of 1052 minke whales, (up from 797) but so far only 444 have been landed, reports BBC. Norway's ...

Norwegian public broadcaster NRK reported on Sunday that the carcass of the whale was found floating at the Risavika Bay in ...

Sebastian Strand, who worked to protect the 14 foot-long whale, known as Hvaldimir, said he found the dead mammal floating ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Hvaldimir first appeared off Norway's coast in 2019. [AFP] A Beluga whale whose strange ...

Gliding stealthily through Norway’s frigid Arctic waters ... with one of the most fearsome sea predators — killer whales. Gliding stealthily through Norway’s frigid Arctic waters, world ...

To film the secret lives of the killer whales that I study in Norwegian coastal waters, BBC Blue Planet II partnered ... Norwegian Orca Survey (Andenes, Norway). We worked together over several ...