Whales fertilize the ocean with vital nutrients; their excrement stimulates phytoplankton, oxygen, and carbon capture in ...

As many as 30 blue whales, including multiple pairs of mothers and calves, showed up off the Channel Islands recently and seem to be sticking around, officials said. The whales regularly feed off the ...

Blue whales and whale sharks, though both giants of the ocean and filter feeders, differ significantly. Blue whales, massive marine mammals, consume k ...

The first-ever footage of a blue whale calf suckling, filmed by a snorkeller in East Timor in South-East Asia, has been released. “It is certainly not a newborn calf,” says Karen Edyvane at the ...

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 ...