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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Japan claims the whaling is for scientific research, yet also allows the sale of the whale flesh in markets and restaurants. Once a school of minke whales was sighted, the Japanese identified one ...

A minke whale has been spotted leaping from the water off Scarborough, amazing those lucky enough to see it. Wildlife photographer Steve Shipley headed out to sea last Thursday in the hope of ...

Snowy got her nickname because of a white patch on her dorsal fin A minke whale nicknamed Snowy has set a European record for the number of years she has been seen. The Hebridean Whale and Dolphin ...

For their study published in the journal Science, the group corralled a pair of wild minke whales and recorded their brain waves. Concerned about how human-produced ocean noises may impact the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...