The London Whale is a case in point.

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

A private school named Abu Hasan was established in this time period.

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

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

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

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

The North Atlantic Right Whale ( Eubalaena glacialis ), which once appeared from the Bay of Biscay to Norway, have disappeared from the waters around the Netherlands.

This is a blue whale. We have blue whales in the waters around here, off Maldives, around the waters of India. You can see them off Kerala.

In his book Historia animalium (History of animals), Aristotle was careful enough to distinguish between the baleen whales and toothed whales, a taxonomical separation still used today.

This is a plot from Christopher Clark who tracked one individual blue whale as it passed by Bermuda, went down to the latitude of Miami and came back again.

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.

The report of the recent bipartisan investigation, led by US Senators Carl Levin and John McCain, into the infamous London Whale trades provides just one example.

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.

One of Tilly s offspring, sold to an amusement park in Spain, has also killed a trainer, as have orcas in other parks.

MELBOURNE Last month, at the Sea World amusement park in Florida, a whale grabbed a trainer, Dawn Brancheau, pulled her underwater, and thrashed about with her.

Did you feel the urge to flee this god forsaken country in a boat and risk death and humiliation?

Many European sailors were shipwrecked on the coasts of the island, among them Robert Drury, whose journal is one of the few written depictions of life in southern Madagascar during the 18th century.

MELBOURNE Last month, at the Sea World amusement park in Florida, a whale grabbed a trainer, Dawn Brancheau, pulled her underwater, and thrashed about with her. By the time rescuers arrived, Brancheau was dead.

The consensus among scientists is that the atmosphere of the young Earth contained much larger quantities of greenhouse gases (such as carbon dioxide, methane and or ammonia) than are present today, which trapped enough heat to compensate for the smaller amount of solar energy reaching it.