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 Remote ...

A day after a dead minke whale was spotted floating in a bay between New Jersey and New York, a second minke whale washed up on a beach in Ocean County Friday morning, officials said. A deceased minke ...

Whale watchers aboard a boat off the coast of California recently caught a few glimpses of the special species considered to be the Houdini of the whale kingdom. On Aug. 4, two minke whales were ...

A 20-foot minke whale died after colliding with a motorboat off the Jersey Shore, officials said. The force of the collision sent a boat passenger into the water. A boater in Barnegat Bay near Long ...

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. The whale was found on ...

A minke whale died Saturday in a Jersey Shore bay a short time after videos showed it collide with a boat, nearly capsizing the vessel and throwing a person overboard. The dead whale was still seen in ...