The blue whale is famously the largest animal in the world, but this simple fact doesn't do these creatures justice. They ...

The blue whale is the biggest animal that has ever existed. Whales can be found in every ocean, with many species migrating long distances between their feeding and mating grounds, where they gather ...

The calves are born in fall and winter and weaned before they return to feeding areas, study co-author Trevor Branch from the University of Washington explains. Blue whales migrate during summer to ...

The waters of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary off central California are rich feeding grounds for blue, fin and ...

In the summer, adult whales feed at high latitudes—like Alaska ... Plus, the nutrient inputs of blue whales—the largest animals to ever live on the Earth—are not known and were not included in the ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Pygmy blue whales off Western Australia engage in foraging dives, including lunge-feeding, during their migration to Indonesia. These dives, tracked using ...

Great rivers of whale pee make a remarkable contribution to Earth's cycling of nutrients, a new study reveals.

File photo of a blue whale off the coast of Bandon, Oregon. An analysis from the University of Washington finds that blue and ...

Now we can add whale urine to that list, according to a paper published in the journal Nature Communications. “Lots of people think of plants as the lungs of the planet, taking in carbon dioxide, and ...

The blue whale is the biggest animal that has ever existed. Whales can be found in every ocean, with many species migrating long distances between their feeding and mating grounds, where they ...

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