Alameda County firefighters spray water on a beached juvenile minke whale to keep it comfortable in Emeryville, Calif., on Tuesday, April 8, 2025. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group) ...

“These are two very different species,” he said. “The going theory is that … the factors involved are suspected to be quite different.” Whereas sightings of minke whales are exceedingly rare in the ...

A minke whale that spent the last week swimming in Long Beach Harbor despite efforts by marine wildlife experts to reroute it back to deeper waters died this weekend, officials confirmed.

A rare minke whale was euthanized on Tuesday, April 8, after getting stuck in shallow waters near the Emeryville Marina in California's San Francisco Bay. This comes after three other gray whales ...

PLYMOUTH — A dead minke whale washed ashore in Plymouth over the weekend, marking the second such incident on the South Shore in the past five weeks. The nonprofit organization Whale and Dolphin ...

Cornwall kayaker captures ‘thrilling’ footage of close encounter with 30ft whale Rupert Kirkwood, 62, from Holsworthy in Devon, filmed the moment he was circled by a Minke whale for 20 minutes.

Rupert Kirkwood, 62, filmed as he was circled by a Minke whale for around 20 minutes near Fowey as he paddled offshore. He said: "Whales are very difficult to spot because they just roll off the ...

Rupert Kirkwood, 62, from Holsworthy in Devon, has captured 'thrilling' footage of a close encounter with a 30ft whale off the coast of Cornwall. He was circled by the Minke whale fro 20 minutes.

Rulli said minke whales are rare in the area, and the mammal center has spotted only five since 2009. The whale may have come into the San Francisco Bay looking for food, Rulli explained, but ...

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 ...

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

A single minke whale has been lingering in the Catalina Landing in downtown Long Beach for several days. NOAA is monitoring its health and trying to guide it back to open water.