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.

The blue whales they study, the 2,000 animals that summer off western North America, once just a splinter group, now make up a significant population. Mate, director of the Marine Mammal Institute ...

Blue whales lunge through large swarms of krill with their mouths open, taking in more food in one mouthful than any other animal on Earth. Krill make up the vast majority of a blue whale's diet. The ...

Out of all the blue whale sightings worldwide, mother-calf pairs make up just 3.1 percent. This doesn’t make sense; though blue whales are far rarer today than they were before the rise of ...

The Museum's vast blue whale skeleton is more than just a specimen - it's a 4.5-tonne parcel of social history. The animal has been dead for more than 120 years, but the legend of the day it arrived ...

And now more than ever, the odds of seeing a whale or two have increased significantly. "I've never seen a blue whale in the wild out here my whole life until, you know, the first part of the 2000 ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Pygmy blue whales off Western Australia engage in foraging dives, including lunge-feeding, during their migration to Indonesia. These dives, tracked using ...

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 ...

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 ...