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A pair of Antarctic minke whales showing their prominent, falcate dorsal fins An Antarctic minke whale captured by the Japanese vessel Yushin Maru, showing the coloration of the baleen. Like their close relative the common minke, the Antarctic minke whale is robust for its genus. They have a narrow, pointed, triangular rostrum with a low ...
The two species of minke whale are the common (or northern) minke whale and the Antarctic (or southern) minke whale. [2] The minke whale was first described by the Danish naturalist Otto Fabricius in 1780, who assumed it must be an already known species and assigned his specimen to Balaena rostrata , a name given to the northern bottlenose ...
Antarctic minke whale: Balaenoptera bonaerensis Burmeister, 1867: NT: 515,000 [18] 6–10 t (6.6–11.0 short tons) Genus Megaptera Gray, 1846 – one species Common name Scientific name Status Population Distribution Size Picture Humpback whale: Megaptera novaeangliae Borowski, 1781: LC: 84,000 25–30 t (28–33 short tons)
Antarctic whales are any whales which are known to reside near Antarctica for at least part of the year. This includes: Arnoux's beaked whale; Blue whale; Dwarf sperm whale; Fin whale; Gray's beaked whale; Humpback whale; Minke whale; Antarctic minke whale; Pygmy right whale; Pygmy sperm whale; Sei whale; Southern bottlenose whale; Southern ...
Whale and Dolphin Conservation, a marine mammal research and policy group with its North American headquarters in Plymouth, led the response. Two dead minke whales found on South Shore. Who ...
Common minke whale, Balaenoptera acutorostrata LC (ssp. acutorostrata - North Atlantic minke whale NE, ssp. scammoni - North Pacific minke whale NE, unnamed ssp. dwarf minke whale NE) Antarctic minke whale, Balaenoptera bonaerensis DD; Sei whale, Balaenoptera borealis EN (ssp. borealis - northern sei whale NE, ssp. schlegellii - southern sei ...
Wind versus whales: How dead whales became the symbol of a political battle in NJ and elsewhere A humpback whale lunge-feeding on schooling fish known as menhaden in the waters of Raritan Bay.
DNA sequencing in 2002 proved that all three specimens were of the same species — and that it was distinct from other beaked whales. But researchers studying the mammal couldn’t confirm whether the species was extinct until 2010, when two whole spade-toothed whales, both dead, washed up on a New Zealand beach. But none has been studied before.