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

After a powerful 8.8-magnitude quake near Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula triggered tsunami waves, whales washed ashore in Japan ...

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.

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

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The 50-second video ends by showing the orcas sinking their teeth into the minke whale. “Usually we see other orcas who feed on fish, but never on a whale,” Korostelev said.

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 ...

There are actually two types of minke whale, the northern minke and the Antarctic, or southern, minke. At 8 or 9 m in length (26 to 30 ft) the minkes are the second smallest of the baleen whales ...

Understanding The Japanese Whale Hunt And What It Means For Antarctic Minke Whales Ariel Woodruff December 1, 2015 Getty Image Starting December 1, it will be a bad time to be an Antarctic minke ...