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. There ...
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It sounds absurd, but the heart of a blue whale is so big a human could swim through its arteries
It’s hard to picture a creature so immense that a person could stand inside one of its arteries, yet that’s the reality of ...
The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is the largest cetacean on the planet. While some have claimed that there were ...
Blue whale calves and births have seldom been documented. A new study may help unravel the mystery. Photo from NOAA Fisheries Service Despite being members of the largest species on the planet, young ...
Whale watching charter owners said they couldn’t remember a time over the last decade when blue whales, the earth’s largest mammals, showed up this late off Southern California. In recent years, their ...
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Blue whales have stopped singing, and here's why
Blue whales are loud. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, they are some of the loudest animals on the entire planet. However, something is changing. A study from earlier ...
Blue whales have been singing less, and it could be a bellwether of climate change. Warming oceans affect the availability of their only food source, krill, and according to a study published in the ...
Santa Monican Mike Vaughan paddle boards alongside a giant blue whale off the coast of Redondo Beach earlier this week. Vaughan said he has spotted blue whales while paddle boarding nearly every day ...
Over the years we’ve seen whales in the wild enough times that I thought we had pretty much done it all. Then I saw a friend’s striking photos from the annual gray whale migration to Mexico’s Baja ...
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