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

For the first time ever, scientists in Antarctica have attached a camera to a minke – one of the most poorly understood of all the whale species. And in an incredible bonus for researchers, the camera ...

But when biologists took a look at the video, they said the whale was actually something much more rare — a juvenile Antarctic minke whale. “I’ve never heard of an Antarctic minke whale here ...

The country plans on killing 333 minke whales by the end of next summer ... sending a "research" ship to the Antarctic Ocean. The commission banned commercial whaling in 1986, but since then ...

Findings discovered that humpback whales near the Antarctic Peninsula were present ... of the Bay of Biscay during the summer months. Minke whale sightings were concentrated in shallower, coastal ...

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 ...

He gave no details of the negotiations, believed to revolve around having Japan end its Antarctic whale hunt while still being allowed to kill minke whales in the north Pacific Ocean. Prime ...