Plus, the wildlife in the oceans around the island could benefit massively over time from the disintegration of iceberg A23a. “Without ice, we wouldn’t have these ecosystems. They are some of the most ...

New research shows that whales move nutrients thousands of miles—in their pee and poop—from as far as Alaska to Hawaii, ...

Blue whales might be some of the most iconic creatures on the planet, but for all their impressive features, there’s still plenty we don’t know about them. One particularly confounding mystery ...

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

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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.

As populations of this food source recovered from the marine heat wave, detections of blue whale singing soared. When krill numbers fell again, so did the whales’ songs. Unlike blue whales ...

They looked huge, but it was hard to tell with the distance. We circled nearby, waiting for a blue whale to surface. With a loud blast of air from its blowhole, a blue whale appeared a couple of ...

But across various blue whale populations, high pregnancy rates of 33–50% annually seem to contradict the average 3.1% rate of sightings of blue whales involving mother-calf pairs.

The blue whale is the largest animal ever known to have lived on Earth. Blue whales are largest of all baleen whales and are found worldwide. They have a long slender body with a proportionally ...