Eavesdropping on whale songs has provided vital new information in the battle to protect the endangered species. Variations ...

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 ...

If it is a blue whale or fin whale hybrid, it could have a lifespan of 70 to 90 years ... Until then, scientists will continue to listen to the depths, hoping that one day, the 52-hertz whale’s song ...

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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 ...

Around seven months after being born, and already at a whopping 52 feet (16 meters) long, the calves are weaned and stop associating with their mothers. But across various blue whale populations ...

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 GERRIT S. MILLER'S paper, “Some o'¦'o¦ hitherto unpublished photographs and measurements of the Blue Whale” (Proc.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

But if you’re looking for the moment that he called “one of the most remarkable things I have ever seen in my life,” don’t miss the pod of four blue whales cavorting. “These are the ...

This regularity, called Zipf's law, has just been discovered in an unexpected domain: humpback whale songs. Illustration image Pixabay An international team, led by researchers from the Hebrew ...

A new study has found the song of humpback whales is a complex, culturally transmitted behaviour, and is structured in a way that the authors say challenges ‘long held assumptions about the uniqueness ...

NELSON BAY, Tasmania – A mass stranding of more than 150 false killer whales on a remote island beach south of the Australian mainland has taken a grim turn, with rough seas hindering rescue efforts.