The carcass, reduced to a bony skeleton, measured about 6.5 feet and was surrounded by crawling creatures that fed on its ...

In a nutshell Migrating baleen whales transport thousands of tons of nutrients from cold, nutrient-rich feeding grounds to ...

In total, 17,072 whales, such as sei and Antarctic minke whales, have been flensed and cut up in the Antarctic Sea, the Northwest Pacific Ocean and waters around Japan. Up until the 1970s when ...

Japan argues that minke whales and a number of other species are plentiful and ... that Japan should withdraw all permits and licences for its whaling ships in the Antarctic and not issue any new ones ...

However, the government has set a catch limit of 379 whales for this year within Japan’s EEZ, including a cap of 167 for minke whales ... scope of operation into Antarctica.

The bountiful creatures sequester carbon and are a vital food source for marine predators, but their future is uncertain ...

An international team of marine biologists have published research in Molecular Ecology that shows the benefits of gene flow ...

Whales can become caught in rope that runs between shellfish creels on the seabed to a buoy on the surface. Trials have been done using "ropeless creels" which have the main line in a container along ...

Jessica Farrer–a marine biologist who serves as Research Director at The Whale Museum, and part of the team of scientists working temporarily in Antarctica Peninsula, profiled in “Expedition Killer ...