The carcass, reduced to a bony skeleton, measured about 6.5 feet and was surrounded by crawling creatures that fed on its nutrients.

Whale-watching here is year-round, though there are dramatic changes in both species and abundance with the seasons. Antarctic minke whales, humpback whales and killer whales gather along the ...

The country plans on killing 333 minke whales by the end of next summer ... sending a "research" ship to the Antarctic Ocean. The commission banned commercial whaling in 1986, but since then ...