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.

But in Abe Koogler’s “Deep Blue Sound,” it isn’t humanity that is first presented as the problem to the audience — it is the whales. The whales have gone missing. With such a premise being handed to ...

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 ...

Aerial footage showing the close association between blue whale mother and calf, in the South Taranaki Bight, New Zealand. Credit: Leigh Torres/ Geospatial Ecology of Marine Megafauna Laboratory (GEMM ...

There’s an irascible, high-handed volunteer mayor (Crystal Finn) who may be the Karennest Karen ever, bulldozing through town halls convened to discuss the Whale Problem. Better adjusted are ...

This includes some of the whale species that frequent the Salish Sea. So when whales go viral in other parts of the world, like the man who was recently swallowed and spit out by a humpback whale ...

We were primarily on the lookout for blue whales – the giants of the planet, reaching as much as 110 feet in length. Castañon asked another captain as we pulled out of the marina where the ...

The largest blue whale on record is a female, who was measured at a South Georgia whaling station in the South Atlantic. This event occurred in 1909. She was measured at 33.58 m (110 ft 17 in). The ...