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

In total, 17,072 whales, such as sei and Antarctic minke whales, have been flensed and cut up in the Antarctic Sea, the Northwest Pacific Ocean and waters around Japan. Up until the 1970s when ...

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 ...

He gave no details of the negotiations, believed to revolve around having Japan end its Antarctic whale hunt while still being allowed to kill minke whales in the north Pacific Ocean. Prime ...

Despite an international moratorium on commercial whaling, Norwegians like Kristiansen persist in hunting minke whales—though ... and in the rich waters of the Antarctic. About the same time ...

Last year, Japanese whalers caught 294 minke, Bryde’s and sei whales — less than 80% of the quota and fewer than the number once hunted in the Antarctic and the northwestern Pacific under the ...