A routine clam survey took an unexpected turn off the Virginia coast when a mysterious bone with big black teeth was pulled ...

minke and gray whale. Instead of teeth, the animals have plates of what is called baleen, through which they sieve huge mouthfuls of tiny creatures from the water. Exactly how they produce complex ...

For example, we did this recently for right whales around New ... actually started to get some teeth. Whereas the other species were sequentially depleted, minke whaling had only started, and ...

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 ...

The scientific name for killer whales is Orcinus orca, which was given in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Linnaeus, who ...

Right, minke, fin and sei whales also have baleen plates ... For scientists, one way to learn what their diet was like is by looking at the shape of an individual whale's teeth. If the teeth have ...

Also a minke — the smallest of the baleen whale species — it was between 10 and 12 feet in length. 3 A dead minke whale seen in East Hampton, NY in September.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...