A new study of Antarctic minke whales reveals a minimum size limit for whales employing the highly efficient 'lunge-feeding' strategy that enabled the blue whale to become the largest animal on Earth.
Blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus), the largest extant animals, exhibit a complex interplay of ecological and behavioural adaptations that allow them to thrive in vast, heterogeneous oceanic ...
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Blue whales are going silent due to climate change
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 ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The blue whale is the largest creature on Earth and perhaps the biggest that ever lived, so it is no surprise it has a huge appetite. But the strategies this behemoth uses to ...
Neal J. Riley is a digital producer for CBS Boston. He has been with WBZ-TV since 2014. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe and The San Francisco Chronicle. Neal is a graduate of Boston ...
Scientists may finally have an explanation for the longstanding mystery of why blue whale calves are rarely sighted, an advance that could help better conserve the critically endangered species. There ...
Researchers used noninvasive suction tags to observe the behavior of Antarctic minke whales as they fed on krill in the waters off the West Antarctic Peninsula. (Photo by David Cade, Hopkins Marine ...
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