Where are all the baby blue whales? Scientists may have finally cracked the mystery - Blue whale calves are rarely seen with ...

In all of human history, only two blue whale births have been recorded, with both having taken place decades ago. It is unclear why blue whale births and even calves themselves are so rarely seen ...

Blue whale births remain unseen because they occur in winter, when researchers typically aren't observing them. By the time ...

Imagine giving birth to a 1360 kg baby. That's practically the weight of a small car. But it's the typical size of a newborn blue whale. The biggest baby in the animal kingdom. When they nurse ...

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.

A peachy orange baby killer whale was spotted bouncing and rolling in waters off Washington, a nonprofit said. A pod of the endangered Southern Resident killer whales were photographed Feb. 8 off ...

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

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.