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

Every year, a mysterious gathering takes place on the remote northern reaches of the Great Barrier Reef. Dwarf minke whales, ...

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

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) ...

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.

A minke whale that washed up dead on a Jersey Shore beach on Friday had an infectious disease, officials said. The adult male whale was about 17 feet, 6 inches long had no food in its digestive ...

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 ...

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 dead minke whale was seen floating off The Gurnet in Duxbury on Aug. 15. It was towed to Duxbury Beach, where a necropsy was performed on it, the results of which are still pending.

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.

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.

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 ...