Scientists think they use these vocalizations to communicate and—along with their excellent hearing—perhaps to sonar-navigate the dark ocean depths. Blue whales primarily favor krill, which are small, ...

Catching a Blue Whale in Fisch is not an easy task as you must do a lot of groundwork before. This includes learning about the location and the conditions under which they spawn. In this ...

In a groundbreaking paleontological discovery that has stunned the scientific community, researchers have unearthed the fossilized jawbone of an ancient whale species that appears to have been ...

However, some species – such as the blue whale – are lunge feeders and lunge at speed through huge clouds of krill to feed in mass quantities. Unlike toothed whales, baleen whales are usually ...

Happily, Dionne has come up with a solution. “Why don’t we use the internationally agreed upon standard of measurement – the blue whale?” The blue whale genome is 2.4 billion bases in length.

Tourists and researchers witnessed a pod of orcas hunt and kill an endangered pygmy blue whale. © Robert Pittman, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Every summer ...

Amazingly, while gray whales cover journeys that reach nearly 14,000 miles, they are only three calving lagoons where they give birth to their babies. All are in Baja California. The migratory ...

Five families of orcas joined forces to hunt down and feed on a blue whale, the largest creature on the planet, in what was an extremely rare sighting off Australia. More than 60 orcas worked ...

An orca attack on a pygmy blue whale is witnessed by researchers and tourists onboard a whale-watching vessel off the WA coast. It is one of just a handful of documented killer whale attacks on a ...