Experts are noticing an alarming rise in whales becoming entangled in fishing gear, a worrying trend for the already ...

A dead minke whale washed up on the northern beaches of the Outer Banks Tuesday evening, the third dead whale to turn up near the Virginia Beach coast in the last three days. The whale was found on ...

WASHINGTON, March 15 (Reuters) - 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 ...

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 Remote ...

A SyFy movie might call the school of 400 sharks off Block Island a "Sharknado," but the RI Department of Environmental ...

Researchers used noninvasive suction tags to observe the behavior of Antarctic minke whales as they fed on krill in the waters off the West Antarctic Peninsula. (Photo by David Cade, Hopkins Marine ...

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 also ...

A team of marine biologists from Norway, the U.S. and Denmark has conducted the first hearing test of a live baleen whale. For their study published in the journal Science, the group corralled a pair ...

EMERYVILLE — A juvenile whale who beached itself several times since it was first spotted in the San Francisco Bay last week was euthanized Tuesday after a team from the Marine Mammal Center ...

A rare juvenile minke whale that had repeatedly been seen stranded in the San Francisco Bay was euthanized Tuesday after officials determined the mammal had little chance for survival. The stranded ...

The 2025 Ocean Photographer of the Year exhibition opens at the Australian National Maritime Museum today, showcasing the ...