When University of Pisa paleontologists first found a prehistoric whale's skeleton 13 years ago among rocks in southern ...

Krill make up the vast majority of a blue whale's diet. The blue whale is a filter-feeder. Its throat has an expandable, pleated structure to engulf a volume of water and prey that is greater than the ...

The numbers are staggering: Scientists estimate 80 whales die each year off the U.S. West Coast ... with a particular focus on the mighty blue whale. Despite clear evidence that collisions are killing ...

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.

“When I turned around, I felt on my face like a slimy texture; I saw colors like dark blue ... also thought the whale was going to hurt his father or that he would die in the cold water.

A new study by Trevor Branch, a professor in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, suggests a hypothesis to explain why ...

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 numbers are staggering: Scientists estimate 80 whales die each year off the U.S. West Coast ... with a particular focus on the mighty blue whale. Despite clear evidence that collisions are killing ...