The first dorsal fin is small, high, and pointed (and may be spinous) the second dorsal fin runs along the rest of the back and merges with the tail and extensive anal fin.

There are two dorsal fins, no anal fin, and unusually for sharks, the lower lobe of the caudal fin is longer than the upper lobe.

The killer whale ( Orcinus orca ), also referred to as the orca whale or orca, and less commonly as the blackfish or grampus, is a toothed whale belonging to the oceanic dolphin family.

Whale watching has grown quite rapidly.

Despite the decision to resume commercial whale hunting in 2006, the tourism sector is expanding, especially in ecotourism and whale watching.

I never saw so big a whale.

The London Whale is a case in point.

The financial overview is based on provisional 2004 amounts obtained from ADM FIN.

then the whale swallowed him down , and he blameworthy .

So the whale swallowed him , for he was blameworthy ,

then the whale swallowed him down , and he blameworthy .

So the whale swallowed him , for he was blameworthy ,

The pygmy blue whale ( Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda ) is a subspecies of the blue whale ( Balaenoptera musculus ) found in the Indian Ocean and the southern Pacific Ocean.

Vertebrates Mammals (Mammalia) The blue whale is the largest mammal.

Calgary, Alberta, joined other Canadian cities in banning shark fin soup on 16 July 2012 .

They used to use the flesh as well for fertilizer and also would fin the sharks.

Whale watching has become an important part of Iceland's economy since 1997.

You know, we mutate during four billion years before, but now, because it's me, we stop. Fin.

Today, mock shark's fin can also be purchased in preserved form from local supermarkets and convenience stores.

And people were putting up signs in the real world about this whale.

Until late 2012, it was known as the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society.

And then imagine being Bruce Mate's team from OSU, getting up close to a blue whale and fixing a tag on the blue whale that stays, an engineering challenge we've yet to really overcome.

Last year s London Whale trading losses at JPMorgan Chase are a case in point.

Except for the sperm whale, most toothed whales are smaller than the baleen whales.

Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?

Illinois has become the fifth state to implement a ban on shark fin trade, the first non Pacific state.

Power of shape here's a whale. We've seen that the fins of this whale have tubercles on them. And those little bumps actually increase efficiency in, for instance, the edge of an airplane increase efficiency by about 32 percent.

Preparation Genuine shark fin soup or stew is made with shark fins obtained from any of a variety of shark species.

Toronto, Canada s largest city, joined other municipalities like Brantford and Mississauga in adopting a shark fin ban on 13 October 2011.

On 27 March 2013, a private members bill to ban shark fin imports into Canada failed in the House of Commons.

And my spirit soared free, like a great whale gliding through the sea of silent euphoria.

Photo taken November 3, 2011, which appeared on 4thmedia.org's reporting a whale found dead in Chile.

Peter Knights, executive director of WildAid, said in 2001 that the shark fin trade more than doubled in the prior 15 years.

The novel explores common fin de siecle themes such as imperialism, the rise of the New Woman and feminism, and societal progress.

This guy went up, went supersonic, ripped the fin can off yard sale in the sky and a burning metal hunk coming back.

By late 2013, however, a report in The Washington Post indicated that shark fin soup was no longer seen as fashionable in China.

Also, anecdotal evidence points to a worldwide drop in shark fin prices and a move away from shark fishing in parts of Africa.

The largest predator in Norwegian waters is the sperm whale, and the largest fish is the basking shark.

He had long been interested in the potential of seep oil as a cheap alternative to whale oil.

The common name of the whale comes from the gray patches and white mottling on its dark skin.

You probably saw the humpback whale footage that we got there a month or two ago off County Wexford.

I would if anybody's got a whale skeleton they want to sell me, I'll put it in the studio.

Kerosene saved the whales (which had been hunted almost to extinction to provide supposedly renewable whale oil for lighting).

The sei whale migrates annually from cool and subpolar waters in summer to winter in temperate and subtropical waters.

And the Eskimo community basically camps out on the edge of the ice here, waits for a whale to come close enough to attack. And when it does, it throws a harpoon at it, and then hauls the whale up under the ice, and cuts it up.