Scientists dive into the genomes of whales, elephants, and other animal giants looking for new weapons in the fight against ...

Only two births of a blue whale have ever been recorded. Mother and calf pairs are also sighted much more rarely than might be expected. The reason, new research suggests, has to do with where and ...

Since mature female blue whales give birth every two to three years, there have to be more of these pairs out there. So Trevor Branch, an aquatic and fishery sciences professor at ...

Endangered pygmy blue whales dive to depths in the ocean to forage and feed along their migratory path off the Western ...

The largest dataset of cetacean genes ever collated has helped Flinders University scientists deep dive into the blue to ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. A blue whale’s heart can beat as few as two times a minute. The discovery comes from data collected during researchers’ first few attempts to ...

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 GERRIT S. MILLER'S paper, “Some o'¦'o¦ hitherto unpublished photographs and measurements of the Blue Whale” (Proc.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

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

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 ...

BARTLESVILLE, Okla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Blue Whale Materials (BWM), a leader in lithium-ion battery recycling, announced a strategic partnership today with Call2Recycle, the leading battery ...

In a study of blue whales in Antarctica, scientists determined that iron concentration in blue whale feces is 10 million times that of Antarctic seawater. As iron is a limiting micronutrient in the ...

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.