The name is sometimes applied to other related species of finback whales.

A skeleton of a 40-foot finback whale occupies one room.

Finback whales generally sink after being killed, and it takes time for the whale to resurface.

The sharks came to feed on the remains of a 400-ton finback whale that washed ashore last week.

Finback whales are the second-largest animal on Earth, after blue whales.

The whalers harvested 506 southern minke whales and one finback whale.

Humpback and finback whales are back, and whale-watching cruises have begun.

This 1881 case decided ownership of a dead Finback whale (Balaenoptera physalus).

A school of finback whales is closely shadowed by a flock of Cory's shearwaters.

The dead 60-foot-long, 50-ton finback whale that washed up April 3 on a Southampton beach may have had a fatal collision with a ship.

Finback whales (the second-largest animal on earth, after blue whales) have also returned to the region, apparently feeding in newly rich channels just outside the harbor.

Three finback whale carcasses have appeared in New York Harbor recently, surprising marine mammal researchers, conservationists and ship operators.

An early-morning boater discovered the carcass of a finback whale floating in the ship channel between Brooklyn and Staten Island yesterday morning, officials said.

There is the skeleton of a juvenile finback whale hanging in the commons area of Nantucket High School that serves as the team's mascot.

The fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus), also called the finback whale, razorback, or common rorqual, is a marine mammal belonging to the suborder of baleen whales.

"Let the sarge shave you and you can look as pretty as me," Flea added, turning again and giving the woman a smile so broad he looked like a finback whale.

THE owners of some multimillion-dollar ocean-front mansions here were not amused when a 60-foot, 50-ton finback whale carcass washed up in their backyards in the April 3 storm.

This rich feeding ground is home to a wide diversity of large whales, such as humpback whales, finback whales, minke whales, pilot whales, and the endangered right whales.

Murray Handwerker, who was always looking for new ways to sell hot dogs, was approached by a man named Leif Saegaard, who had somehow come into possession of a dead finback whale.

A: Last Sunday, our society sponsored a whale-watching trip and we saw four species of cetaceans: 11 Atlantic white-sided dolphins, 20 humpback whales, 11 minke whales and four finback whales.

The tale of the trapped Finback whale in a salt-water pond near the South Coast fishing community of Burgeo ended earlier in the day when it disappeared, believed to have died and sunk.

This finback whale, found dead in the Baltic in 2006, was pulled from the sea by Greenpeace and dumped in front of the Japanese Embassy in Berlin as an anti-whaling protest.

The museum's collections include dramatic oil paintings of anatomically dubious whales flipping boats into the air, the skeleton of a 43-foot finback whale and intriguing artifacts like the harpoon head that once belonged to Peter Paddock.

In this case, he said, the stripe-like grooves in the skin of the whale's throat, the coloring of its jaw and the size and placement of its fins marked it as a fin or finback whale, Balaenoptera physalus.