And years after the blue whale had died near the harbour, Ned proved himself a hero once again by playing a role in one of the greatest sea rescue operations ever undertaken off the Irish coast. On 20 ...

This is my 26th summer whale-watching here, and we’ve never seen or heard of there being a blue whale sighting in our area, ever,” said Shawna Prince, who runs whale-watching tour agency Sea of Whales ...

"Dr. Richard Sears, director of the Mingan Island Cetacean Study, catalogs blue whales via photo-identification in the ...

Scientists may finally have an explanation for the longstanding mystery of why blue whale calves are rarely sighted, an advance that could help better conserve the critically endangered species.

Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne on the role played by Sue Evans in launching whale watching in Sri Lanka The story that I broke in May 2008 that Southern Sri Lanka is the best place in the world for Blue ...