Blue whales — the planet’s largest animal — subsist on tiny crustaceans called krill. As populations of this food source ...

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 ...

Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the biggest animal that has ever existed. Whales can be found in every ocean ...

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.

“The blue whales are here. They are the largest creatures ever to be on planet earth, larger than all the dinosaurs,” said Captain Kyle Hargrave of Adventure Whale Watching. “They’re here ...

The sperm whale is the largest toothed predator on the planet and the master of the open ocean. The aim of the Blue Planet II team was to capture an intimate family portrait of sperm whales ...

with some species like Antarctic blue whales reduced by 99 percent. By restoring these populations, we can restore the planet’s circulatory system. I am sure there will be lots of surprises.” ...

To study lunge-feeding behaviour blue whales are tagged with cameras. Rorquals are some of the largest whales on the planet including: blue, fin, and humpback whales. Lunge filter feeding involves ...

Now we can add whale urine to that list, according to a paper published in the journal Nature Communications. “Lots of people think of plants as the lungs of the planet, taking in carbon dioxide, and ...

Both blue whales and humpbacks were depleted from hunting, but some humpback and other whale populations are rebounding after several decades of concerted conservation efforts. “Lots of people think ...

When whales migrate from their cold feeding grounds to warmer breeding waters, they carry tons of nutrients in their urine.

Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the biggest animal that has ever existed. Whales can be found in every ocean, ...