A 15-foot minke whale was beached on the rocks at low tide, believed to be an incidence of poisoning by an algal bloom.

There were several rare sights along the San Diego coast this week for those onboard Wild Pacific Whale Watch's boat.

The U.S. government has confirmed 64 large whale entanglements took place in 2023, with at least half of those cases ...

New NOAA research shows that humpbacks were the most entangled species, followed by gray whales, right whales and minke ...

A dead minke whale washed up on the beach north of Corolla along the Outer Banks on March 5, 2024, the area’s third whale death in three days. (Photo courtesy of Christian Benedi) ...

At least 24 dead whales have been discovered in the waters near San Francisco this year, according to the California Academy ...

Blue whales, which can reach about 98 feet (30 meters) long, can engulf water equivalent to 135% of their body mass. The figure is 42% for their much-smaller cousins, the minke whales.

Minke whales are some of the most abundant whales on Earth, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Fisheries division. They can grow up to 35 feet long and live up to ...

A new study of Antarctic minke whales reveals a minimum size limit for whales employing the highly efficient “lunge-feeding” strategy that enabled the blue whale to become the largest animal on Earth.

As the smallest of the group of baleen whales that includes the blue whale - filter-feeding behemoths of the marine realm - the Antarctic minke whale aptly can be called the littlest giant. It ...

A minke whale also washed up on Cape Cod in Massachusetts on May 4. The public is asked to stay at least 300 feet from the whale and report sightings to the MMSC’s 24-hour hotline at 609-266-0538.

Norway plans to kill up to 1,278 minke whales this year, according to a recent announcement made by the country’s fisheries ministry. This is the same quota as the previous two years, although ...