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

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.

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.

The majestic ocean creatures are still recovering from a massive die-off in 2019-23 that is estimated to have cut their ...

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) ...

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 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.