Thank Pod For That: Huge Sighting Of Rare Antarctic Fin Whales

A fin whale in the Weddell Sea near Elephant Island north of the West Antarctic Peninsula. (Alfred-Wegener-Institut/Zenger).

Delighted scientists have discovered large pods of rare fin whales feeding together in Antarctica for the first time in nearly 50 years.

After commercial whaling was banned in 1976, it appears that the species is on a rebound, as this footage appears to show.