Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. From the moment that the biologist Heike Vester presses play, the sound of the static ...

The residents of California’s Santa Monica Bay have some rather noisy neighbors—and they’re not happy about it. That is the conclusion of a new study which shows that blue whales feeding off the coast ...

Blue whale calves enter the world already the size of a bus, yet they still face danger. A hungry killer whale sees a slow, inexperienced target guarded by a single adult. However, orcas cannot reach ...

The ocean is going silent. Blue whales, the gentle leviathans that swim in all but one of the world’s oceans, are the singers of the underwater world. Their groans, whistles and clicks are famously so ...

“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,” ...

Blue whales, the largest animals on Earth, have been spotted not far off the coast of Massachusetts.

Data collected can inform the designation of marine protected areas and boost ecotourism opportunities. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Scientists in Indonesia have tagged a pygmy blue whale for the first time using a drone. Data from the tag revealed a previously unknown path used by the species on its southern migration from ...