WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Marine mammal expert Dr. Regina Eisert thought minke whales were a little boring until she captured some striking footage of one swimming underwater near Antarctica. Now she thinks they’re beautiful. But she said their observations of minke whales could shed new light on their feeding patterns. The conventional thinking has been that minke whales mainly chase krill, Eisert said. She said there had been very little study of minke whales in the Ross Sea region, despite there being over 100,000 in the area.

Source: National Post March 21, 2018 04:59 UTC