A drift whale is a cetacean mammal that has died at sea and floated into shore. This is in contrast to a beached or stranded whale, which reaches land...

in drift nets. It is not known what effect this has on the population. Andrews' beaked whale (M. bowdoini) Andrews, 1908 Blainville's beaked whale (M...

Whale meat, broadly speaking, may include all cetaceans (whales, dolphins, porpoises) and all parts of the animal: muscle (meat), organs (offal), skin...

subsistence use of cetaceans, by dolphin drive hunting and by harvesting drift whales. Widespread commercial whaling emerged with organized fleets of whaling...

beaching, is a phenomenon in which whales and dolphins strand themselves on land, usually on a beach. Beached whales often die due to dehydration, collapsing...

(1996)—identified as a whale carcass. Bermuda Blob 2 (1997)—identified as a whale carcass. Chilean Blob (2003)—identified as a whale carcass. Drift whale, a carcass...

sperm whales sleep in vertical postures just under the surface in passive shallow "drift-dives", generally during the day, during which whales do not...

two modern parvorders of cetaceans – Mysticeti (baleen whales) and Odontoceti (toothed whales) – are thought to have separated from each other around...

extant species in the sperm whale family, along with the pygmy sperm whale and dwarf sperm whale of the genus Kogia. The sperm whale is a pelagic mammal with...

Right whale dolphins are cetaceans belonging to the genus Lissodelphis. It contains the northern right whale dolphin (Lissodelphis borealis) and the southern...

several cases of exploding whale carcasses due to a buildup of gas in the decomposition process. This would occur if a whale stranded itself ashore. Actual...

bowhead whale). By the late 20th century, watching whales was a more profitable enterprise than hunting them. Stranded whales, or drift whales that died...

comprises the 94 species of whales, dolphins, and porpoises. It is divided into toothed whales (Odontoceti) and baleen whales (Mysticeti), which diverged...

about. Beachcombing". Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Beachcombing. Drift whale Message in a bottle Strandloper Wrecking (shipwreck) H.E. Maude, Of Islands...

occasionally took northern right whale dolphins. In the mid-20th century, the largest threat for L. borealis were drift nets used for large-scale squid...

three different raw materials: whale oil, spermaceti oil, and whalebone. Whale oil was the result of "trying-out" whale blubber by heating in water. It...

of Captain George Pollard Jr., the ship was attacked and sunk by a sperm whale. About 2,000 nautical miles (3,700 km) from the coast of South America,...

Alaska Pilot whale meat (bottom), blubber (middle) and dried fish (left) with potatoes, Faroe Islands Aquatic animal Aquatic mammal Drift whale Marine mammal...

Pilot whales are cetaceans belonging to the genus Globicephala. The two extant species are the long-finned pilot whale (G. melas) and the short-finned...

sperm whales sleep in vertical postures just under the surface in passive shallow 'drift-dives', generally during the day, during which whales do not...

Hubbs' beaked whale (Mesoplodon carlhubbsi) was initially thought to be an Andrews' beaked whale when discovered by ichthyologist Carl Hubbs; however,...

The ginkgo-toothed beaked whale (Mesoplodon ginkgodens) is a poorly known species of whale even for a beaked whale, and was named for the unusual shape...

original inhabitants of New England had a well-developed understanding of drift whales. The Arctic whaling program is managed by the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission...

Ice Age: Continental Drift is a 2012 American animated adventure comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is the...

Cuvier's beaked whale, goose-beaked whale, or ziphius (Ziphius cavirostris) is the most widely distributed of all beaked whales in the family Ziphiidae...

ate varied berries and meats, with whale meat being prized. Yuroks did not hunt whales, but waited until a drift whale washed up onto the beach or a place...

ecosystems for their existence. They include animals such as cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises), pinnipeds (seals, sea lions and walruses), sirenians...

Whale conservation refers to the conservation of whales. Prior to the setting up of the IWC in 1946, unregulated whaling had depleted a number of whale...

and drift of iceberg B-9 in the Ross Sea, Antarctica". Antarctic Science. 2 (3): 243–257. doi:10.1017/s0954102090000335. S2CID 128996853. "Whale Bay Furrows"...

The pygmy sperm whale (Kogia breviceps) is one of two extant species in the family Kogiidae in the sperm whale superfamily. They are not often sighted...