If there’s one thing you should know about me, it’s that I love natural history. I worked in a natural history museum for ...

The blue whale is the largest and loudest animal on Earth.” The blue whale is the largest animal on Earth and likely the ...

Tracking some 33,000 whales through photos of their flukes, scientists noted the steep decline which they speculate was due to starvation because of marine heatwaves. Photo identification is ...

Maiacetus had four limbs, ears, a long snout, webbed feet, a tail (although it hadn't yet evolved into the modern whale fluke), and lived around 47.5 MYA. This whale was named Maiacetus when ...

A playful lobtailing session captures a unique moment as a cormorant is perfectly framed by the whale’s fluke. The whale, upside down and lying on its back beneath the water, reveals its underside ...

A humpback whale’s tail is as unique as a fingerprint. The lobes, or flukes, at the end of the tail have scalloped edges that vary from whale to whale; the undersides feature distinct black-and ...

slowly lifted its fluke all the way out of the water,” the group said in the Facebook post. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen that…and I’ve seen a lot of fin whales!” one person commented.

Aerial drone footage shows the humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) missing its iconic lobed fluke, which is responsible for propulsion while swimming. Taken by Eric Guth under NMFS permit # 24359 ...

For example, images of a whale fluke can be used to map migration patterns.

"For the first time we've been able to see features that are truly distinctive of whales, such as their flippers and flukes." Ms Cubaynes' team examined WorldView-3 photos in different parts of ...