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 ...

Care appears to have been taken on the recent Expedition to obtain reliable observations, and it now appears to be substantially confirmed that a blue whale can attain a speed of 20 knots for a ...

A blue whale calf grows at a rate of 200 pounds per day! Although its commercial importance has dwindled, it is the largest animal that ever lived. Some specimens are 100 feet long and weigh 150 tons.

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.

As Earth’s largest animals, blue whales are mighty big eaters ... a co-author of the study published in the journal Nature Communications. “Also we find that the vast majority – 99 per ...

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 ...