A powerful undersea earthquake jolted the region off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula early Wednesday, sending 4-metre-high ...

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.

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

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

Nearly two dozen whales have died in the San Francisco Bay Area in recent months, according to animal rescue groups.

Minke whales are the smallest of the rorqual group of baleen whales, which use a “lunge feeding” strategy to capture large amounts of small prey such as krill. Credit: Duke Marine Robotics and ...

Summer is the best time to witness our rich marine wildlife. As the Wildlife Trusts kick off its National Marine Week, we ...

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.

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.

The minke whale is believed to be abundant, but remains very poorly understood. The video footage, however, is finally revealing some secrets and giving scientists a sneak peek into a day in the ...

Icelandic whalers with a minke whale in July, 2010. Getty In 1982 the International Whaling Commission (IWC), of which Iceland is a member, agreed to stop all commercial whaling by 1986. However ...