At the Natural History Museum, the cetacean collection contains the remains of more than 6,000 specimens of whales, dolphins, and their relatives. Of the thousands of specimens in the collection ...

Blue whales might be some of the most iconic creatures on the planet, but for all their impressive features, there’s still plenty we don’t know about them. One particularly confounding mystery ...

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

MR. GERRIT S. MILLER'S paper, “Some o'¦'o¦ hitherto unpublished photographs and measurements of the Blue Whale” (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 66, pp. 1-4, Pis. i ...

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.

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.