Nearly two dozen whales have died in the San Francisco Bay Area in recent months, according to animal rescue groups.

Josh Pedley, of the Sea Watch Foundation, said: "The weather was perfect, with low winds creating a flat calm sea and this helped us get some stunning views and footage of one of the whales as they ...

The California Academy of Sciences and partners at The Marine Mammal Center confirmed 24 whales have died in the wider San ...

Scientists are investigating a sharp rise in the number of whales killed in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2025 even as local whale pods struggle to recover from a massive die-off in 2019.The ...

Minke whales, considered the smallest of the great, or baleen, whale family, can grow to more than 26 feet long and weigh as much as 14,000 pounds, according to NOAA.

Minke whales are the smallest of the rorqual group of baleen whales, which use a “lunge feeding” strategy to capture large amounts of small prey such as krill. Credit: Duke Marine Robotics and ...

The minke whale, with a sleek body with a brownish-grey color, feeds in the ice-covered or nearshore waters around Antarctica and migrates to more temperate or tropical climates to breed.

There are actually two types of minke whale, the northern minke and the Antarctic, or southern, minke. At 8 or 9 m in length (26 to 30 ft) the minkes are the second smallest of the baleen whales ...

A dead minke whale washed up on the northern beaches of the Outer Banks Tuesday evening, the third dead whale to turn up near the Virginia Beach coast in the last three days.

Minke whales are not as well studied as other species of baleen whales, in part because they can be harder to find and tag. “The data in this study represent more information on a poorly studied ...

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 ...