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JARPA-2 as the program is identified involves catching 935 minke whales and 10 fin whales during the southern hemisphere summers to "...monitor the Antarctic ecosystem, model competition among ...

The latest figures show that of 333 minke Antarctic whales killed last summer, 181 were females. Some 122 females, or 67%, were pregnant. The hunt killed 61 immature males and 53 immature females ...

Researchers used noninvasive suction tags to observe Antarctic minke whales behavior as they fed on Antarctic krill in the waters off the West Antarctic Peninsula. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!

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 ...

Inside the bodies of humpback whales are clues about how climate change is transforming Antarctica. Our BBC science team crossed the Southern Ocean, with the researchers, on a mission to follow ...

A whale has been spotted in Belfast Harbour. The animal, thought to be a juvenile minke whale, is about 4m long. It was first seen on Thursday morning and seems to be healthy and content.

The Southern Ocean encircling Antarctica is the world’s largest feeding ground for baleen whales – species like humpbacks ...

Whales sing loud enough that their songs travel through the ocean, but the mechanics behind it have always been a mystery. Scientists now think they have an idea, and it’s something not seen in ...

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 Antarctic blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus ssp. Intermedia) is the largest animal on the planet, weighing up to 200 tons (approximately 33 elephants) and reaching up to 30 meters in length. The ...