By the time the International Whaling Commission (IWC) imposed a global moratorium on commercial whaling in 1982, Norway was exporting to Japan most of the whale products from the approximately 2,000 ...

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 ...

Common minke whales, the smallest and the most abundant ... Historical records indicate Icelanders engaged in small-scale whaling beginning in the 12th century. However, commercial whaling in ...

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 ...

Dr Vanessa Pirotta, who on Sunday travelled to Antarctica on a day flight as a science ambassador, was astounded to see the vision of what she believes is a juvenile Antarctic minke whale swimming ...

Once a school of minke whales was sighted ... Body parts and organs are weighed using electronic hanging scales and skull measurements are taken using a large calliper. In order to estimate ...