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

Scientists found that blue whale calves are rarely seen because research happens in summer, but calves are born in winter.

In his decades of lifeboat service, he saved countless people from the cold Irish seas. And years after the blue whale had died near the harbour, Ned proved himself a hero once again by playing a role ...

MR. GERRIT S. MILLER'S paper, “Some o'¦'o¦ hitherto unpublished photographs and measurements of the Blue Whale” (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 66, pp. 1-4, Pis. i ...

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.

And sightings of calves are remarkably rare, falling far below what should be expected based on pregnancy rates. For example, just 35 were documented in the Gulf of St. Lawrence over a 45-year period, ...