Kiska, Marineland's last living orca, is seen at the amusement park in 2012. Tara Walton/Toronto Star via Getty Images hide caption
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People look at a dead, 35-foot humpback whale, in Lido Beach, NY, Jan. 31, 2023. A recent spate of whale deaths along the east coast have fueled misinformation about offshore wind development. Seth Wenig/Seth Wenig/AP hide caption
Dead whales on the east coast fuel misinformation about offshore wind development
A massive sculpture of a whale's tail keeps a metro train aloft Monday after it shot through a stop block at De Akkers station in Spijkenisse, Netherlands. No injuries were reported. Robin Utrecht/ANP/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Darrell Blatchley, environmentalist and director of D' Bone Collector Museum, shows plastic waste found in the stomach of a Cuvier's beaked whale near the Philippine city of Davao. AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Japan once labeled its whaling vessels with prominent "Research" tags. The country will resume commercial whaling hunts in 2019. Here, the whaling ships Yushin Maru (right) and Yushin Maru No. 2 are seen before leaving for the Antarctic Ocean for a whale hunt in 2015. In the future, Japanese whaling ships will not operate in the Antarctic. Kyodo/Reuters hide caption
Researchers collect samples from the carcass of a dead whale at Wakatobi National Park in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. Muhammad Irpan Sejati Tassakka/AKKP Wakatobi via AP hide caption
Government workers, residents and environmentalists try to help to a pod of sperm whales stranded in shallow water in Aceh Besar, Aceh, Indonesia on Monday. Antara Foto/Ampelsa via Reuters hide caption
Two sperm whales, members of a social unit named "The Group of Seven," begin a dive together in the deep waters close to Dominica, West Indies. Courtesy of Luke Rendell/Whitehead Lab Dominica Sperm Whale Project hide caption