A juvenile humpback whale was found washed ashore on Roosevelt Beach on Long Island, New York, on Monday morning, just days after a deceased minke whale was found nearby. Since 2017, elevated ...

Also on Monday, an 18-foot immature female minke whale that washed up dead at Sore Thumb Beach on the east end of Jones Beach Island showed evidence of an infectious disease, the agency added.

A team of international researchers has collaborated to sequence the genome of the minke whale. The work was published last year (November 24) in Nature Genetics. The researchers extracted DNA from ...

The discovery of the humpback on Monday came after a smaller minke whale was first reported dead Saturday in the surf near Tobay Beach. Officials believe that minke then washed out to sea before ...