A nearly 40-foot whale has died after straying into a port in Japan's Osaka Bay, marking the third year in a row that whales have become stranded in the area.

Researchers suggest a combination of factors may have contributed to the death of the 14-metre whale, which weighed more than 25 tons. “The warm Kuroshio Current that flows outside Osaka Bay and ...

Deprived of its primary food, giant squid, the whale's spout grew noticeably listless. Unlike Japan's easy-to-navigate harbors like Kobe, Osaka Bay, which serves Japan's third-largest city, is a ...

It had since been spotted in a number of locations in Osaka Bay, until Sunday, when a boat captain reported to the coast guard that the whale was not breathing.

A whale as long as a train car that died after straying into a port in Osaka last month is set to be buried until it naturally becomes a skeletal specimen for a local museum.