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

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 ...

Endangered pygmy blue whales dive to depths in the ocean to forage and feed along their migratory path off the Western ...

A humpback whale briefly engulfed a kayaker off the coast of Chile in an incident caught on camera. Experts say it couldn't have swallowed him even if it wanted to.

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.

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 GERRIT S. MILLER'S paper, “Some o'¦'o¦ hitherto unpublished photographs and measurements of the Blue Whale” (Proc.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 ...