As for its latest innovation, BlueNav looked to the humpback whale as a point of inspiration, zeroing in on its flippers. In place of the smooth, slippery edge one might expect to find on a ...

THE tragic story of a killer whale called Tokitae who performed under the stage name of Lolita as she was "injured and starved" at an aquarium where Flipper was filmed, could very well be ending.

An endangered humpback whale was found dead on one of North Carolina's barrier islands last month, and some of its parts will be permanently displayed at a park in the state. The 31-foot whale was ...

Experts say that the whale — a 40-foot-long, approximately 5-year-old humpback — is likely in distress because the rope is tightly tied around its right flipper and extends through its mouth.

"A N.C. Marine Mammal Stranding Network ... team assisted the park in collecting one of the whale's front flippers and a 4-foot-long section of baleen from the whale's mouth," the park reported.