Minke whales are not endangered in the U.S. but are ... That is the area near the fluke, which she described as what the whale uses to swim. The injury would be consistent with a vessel striking ...

The Associated Press has learned that two humpback whales were found dead and another seriously injured this year in huge ...

A dead minke whale seen in East Hampton, NY in September. facebook/amseasorg NOAA spokeswoman Andrea Gomez told The Post a probe into “unusual mortality events” involving the endangered minke ...

A minke whale that washed up dead on a Jersey Shore beach on Friday had an infectious disease, officials said. The adult male whale was about 17 feet, 6 inches long had no food in its digestive ...

Excitement rippled off the Welsh coast after the sighting of a whale just offshore. Only a lucky few were there to witness it ...

The animal was spotted in at several locations on the Conwy coast on Saturday morning (October 19). People reported seeing ...

By the time the International Whaling Commission (IWC) imposed a global moratorium on commercial whaling in 1982, Norway was exporting to Japan most of the whale products from the approximately 2,000 ...

Dr Brownlow spoke to the BBC after a giant minke whale washed up at North Berwick in East Lothian in April. The 31ft (9m) whale died when it hit rocks and came ashore. Peter Allison The famous ...

Iceland resumed special permit whaling in 2003, killing 200 minke whales over the next five years under the guise of scientific research. In 2006, it also resumed commercial whaling under its ...

PLYMOUTH — A dead minke whale washed ashore in Plymouth over the weekend, marking the second such incident on the South Shore in the past five weeks. The nonprofit organization Whale and Dolphin ...

Two deceased minke whales were found within a day of each other, washing ashore in New York and New Jersey, according to a Facebook post by the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society (AMSEAS).

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 ...