A massive gang of over 60 orcas was seen brutalizing an endangered pygmy blue whale off the coast of Western Australia by a ...

Tourists on a whale-watching boat off Australia witnessed five families of killer whales attack 150-ton mammal.

A mysterious whale that has long puzzled scientists may not be an anomaly, but a clue to what climate change is doing beneath ...

Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the ...

“One big difference is that whales are often traveling thousands of miles across ocean basins–great whales undertake the longest migration of any mammal,” says Roman. “So they connect areas close to ...

In the Southern Ocean, blue whale populations are still greatly reduced after intense hunting in the twentieth century. "There's basic things that we don't know about them, like where their ...

Plus, the nutrient inputs of blue whales—the largest animals to ever live on the Earth—are not known and were not included in the primary calculations of the new study. In the Southern Ocean, blue ...

To sustain their huge bodies, blue whales, which are the largest creatures on Earth, feed on huge amounts of krill. A hundred ...

scientists determined that iron concentration in blue whale feces is 10 million times that of Antarctic seawater. As iron is a limiting micronutrient in the Southern Ocean, its availability triggers ...