For their study published in the journal Science, the group corralled a pair of wild minke whales and recorded their brain waves. The research team chose the minke whales as test subjects because ...

A team from the International Fund for Animal Welfare performed a necropsy on a minke whale at the town of Wellfleet's sand pit on Monday. According to an email from the nonprofit's spokeswoman Stacey ...

So Houser and his colleagues turned to a relatively small baleen species called the minke whale. The researchers examined the migratory route of minke whales along the coast of Norway and found a ...

A team from the International Fund for Animal Welfare performed a necropsy on a minke whale at the town of Wellfleet's sand pit on Monday. According to an email from the nonprofit's spokeswoman ...

Almost all whales are known to breach, particularly the baleen whales. The most famous and frequent breachers are the humpback whales, right whales, and sperm whales. The more uncommon baleen ...

A dead minke whale was found washed up on a beach in Hull on Wednesday, officials said. The 20-foot female was placed on a truck and taken to a local landfill, where a necropsy was performed ...

For the first time, scientists have directly measured the hearing range of minke whales, discovering that the species can detect high-frequency sounds as high as 90 kilohertz (kHz), according to a ...

A dead minke whale that washed up in a coastal South Shore town has been removed. The deceased minke whale that washed up in Hull will now be taken so scientists and researchers to conduct a ...

Japan's Fisheries Agency announced on Nov. 22 that it will adjust its 2025 commercial whaling quotas, raising the minke whale catch limit from 25 to 56 while reducing the Bryde's whale quota from ...