Where are all the baby blue whales? Scientists may have finally cracked the mystery - Blue whale calves are rarely seen with ...

Blue whale births remain unseen because they occur in winter, when researchers typically aren't observing them. By the time ...

Endangered pygmy blue whales dive to depths in the ocean to forage and feed along their migratory path off the Western Australian coast, new research led by the Australian Institute of Marine Science ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. A blue whale’s heart can beat as few as two times a minute. The discovery comes from data collected during researchers’ first few attempts to ...

MR. GERRIT S. MILLER'S paper, “Some o'¦'o¦ hitherto unpublished photographs and measurements of the Blue Whale” (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 66, pp. 1-4, Pis. i ...

We were primarily on the lookout for blue whales – the giants of the planet, reaching as much as 110 feet in length. Castañon asked another captain as we pulled out of the marina where the ...

To study lunge-feeding behaviour blue whales are tagged with cameras. Rorquals are some of the largest whales on the planet including: blue, fin, and humpback whales. Lunge filter feeding involves ...

Scientists may finally have an explanation for the longstanding mystery of why blue whale calves are rarely sighted, an advance that could help better conserve the critically endangered species.