Researchers are beginning to breathe a sigh of relief as a late run of mother and calf blue whales looks set to equal or ...

Only two births of a blue whale have ever been recorded. Mother and calf pairs are also sighted much more rarely than might be expected. The reason, new research suggests, has to do with where and ...

A blue whale mother and calf swimming together in the South Taranaki Bight, New Zealand, a rare summer feeding region with many mother-calf pairs.

“The blue whale is the largest and loudest animal on Earth.” The blue whale is the largest animal on Earth and likely the largest animal ever to have lived. While this ocean mammoth is dubbed “blue,” ...