Blue whale calves are huge at birth but still vulnerable, and orca attacks on them are rare, high-risk events that require coordinated pod hunting. Mothers defend calves by positioning their massive ...

The hunting of large whales goes back much further in time than previously thought. New research from the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ...

Photo of a large blue whale with bright light on a black background. Insulation.© ARomadov/Shutterstock.com Blue whale calves enter the world already the size of a bus, yet they still face danger. A ...

A new study published in Nature Communications reveals that large whale hunting began in southern Brazil some 5,000 years ago, about 1,000 years earlier than previously established by archaeological ...

Changing ocean conditions making whale prey scarce are causing the mammals to stop singing, a recent Monterey Bay study found. Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Cascadia ...