AS nothing seems to have been published in the literature on the hormone-producing organs in the whale, I submit a short communication of the preliminary results 1 of my investigations on the subject.

They are currently listed as an endangered species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). There are four subspecies of blue whale. B. musculus musculus, the one that ...

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Deep in the Pacific, humans have tracked a mysterious whale’s call for decades—but no other whale seems to respond. And now, we might be running out of time to find the source.

“A beautiful (minke) whale was spotted near Bundeena Wharf today, giving passengers on the Cronulla Ferries an unforgettable ...

Join Museum scientists as they reflect on becoming part of this specimen's giant story. Since its arrival at the Museum in the 1880s, the blue whale skeleton has been part of an ever-expanding ...

A jar of krill specimens with visible eye spots. Blue whales eat huge volumes of these small crustaceans. Blue whales eat krill - tiny, shrimp-like crustaceans that live throughout Earth's oceans. The ...

Baleen whales eat between 10 and 20 tons a day, a 2021 Nature report found. That’s the caloric equivalent of eating 70-80 thousand Big Macs per day, the researchers told NPR. Blue whales are ...

FORT BRAGG, CA., 1/28/25 — The bones of a 73-foot blue whale are stored in a barn in Mendocino, awaiting their permanent home ...