Blue whales are the largest animals on the planet. They are powerful swimmers that migrate long distances to feed and breed, and live in every ocean except the Arctic. On average, they live around 80 ...

Blue whale calves are huge at birth but still vulnerable, and orca attacks on them are rare, high-risk events that require coordinated pod hunting. Mothers defend calves by positioning their massive ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Fossil records make one evolutionary pattern especially ...

Only two blue whale births have ever been recorded in human history, both decades ago. This remains an extraordinary mystery given there used to be hundreds of thousands of blue whales before whaling ...

The sound of the blue whale’s singing has decreased off the coast of California, frightening scientists who believe it is an indication of greater ecosystem danger. Scientists tracked the auditory ...

Only two blue whale births have ever been recorded in human history, both decades ago. This remains an extraordinary mystery, given there used to be hundreds of thousands of blue whales before whaling ...

Unfortunately you've used all of your gifts this month. Your counter will reset on the first day of next month. That new blue whale exhibition at the Science Center? It's big A reproduction of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just a blue whale's tongue weighs as much as an adult elephant. But what caused blue whales to grow to such an extraordinary size?

The intimate family lives of blue whales, including a blue whale nursing its calf underwater, has been revealed in extraordinary footage captured in a project led by an international marine ecologist ...

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