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Endangered pygmy blue whales dive to depths in the ocean to forage and feed along their migratory path off the Western ...

A new study by Trevor Branch, a professor in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, suggests a hypothesis to explain why ...

“My conceptual model can explain the mystery of the missing calves: Blue whales produce calves, or give birth, shortly after ...

In spite of its predominating importance to modern whalers, the blue whale (BalcBnoptera musculus ... Mr. Miller makes no comparisons, and his facts must speak for themselves.

And sightings of calves are remarkably rare, falling far below what should be expected based on pregnancy rates. For example, ...

In a study of blue whales in Antarctica, 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 ...

But across various blue whale populations, high pregnancy rates of 33-50% annually seem to contradict the average 3.1% rate of sightings of blue whales involving mother-calf pairs.