So Houser and his colleagues turned to a relatively small baleen species called the minke whale. The researchers examined the migratory route of minke whales along the coast of Norway and found a ...
For their study published in the journal Science, the group corralled a pair of wild minke whales and recorded their brain waves. The research team chose the minke whales as test subjects because ...
A team from the International Fund for Animal Welfare performed a necropsy on a minke whale at the town of Wellfleet's sand pit on Monday. According to an email from the nonprofit's spokeswoman Stacey ...
For the first time, scientists have directly measured the hearing range of minke whales, discovering that the species can detect high-frequency sounds as high as 90 kilohertz (kHz), according to a new ...
A dead minke whale was found washed up on a beach in Hull on Wednesday, officials said. The 20-foot female was placed on a truck and taken to a local landfill, where a necropsy was performed ...
Iceland’s caretaker government that lost a general election last weekend took a controversial decision to grant licenses to two companies for hunting whales.
In 2023, researchers captured two juvenile minke whales off the coast of Norway, applied gold-plated electrodes to their skin with suction cups and then examined their brain waves as different ...
For the first time, scientists have directly measured the hearing range of minke whales, discovering that the species can detect high-frequency sounds as high as 90 kilohertz (kHz), according to a ...