A nearly two-decade study of whale songs recorded in the Southern Ocean suggests that blue whales, the largest creatures ever to have roamed the Earth, may be recovering in Antarctica after being ...

Hunted nearly to extinction during 20th century whaling, the Antarctic blue whale, the world's largest animal, went from a population size of roughly 200,000 to little more than 300. The most ...

Two satellite tagged Antarctic blue whales have provided the first insights into the movement and behaviour of these critically endangered ocean giants on their feeding grounds.

Ten years ago, Dr. Virginia Andrews-Goff was riding the bowsprit of a six-meter boat, as a 30-meter, 120-ton Antarctic blue whale surfaced alongside. That day in the Southern Ocean, she became the ...

Hunted nearly to extinction during 20th century whaling, the Antarctic blue whale, the world's largest animal, went from a population size of roughly 200,000 to little more than 300. The most ...

During the 1936–37 antarctic whaling season, out of a total of 32,821 whales slaughtered, 14,183 were Blue whales. A MODEL of a 93-ft. Blue whale has just been completed in the Whale Hall of the ...

From these data I have calculated the average length of female Blue whales taken from 1930 to 1935. The results are shown in the following table. Nature - The Stock of Antarctic Blue Whales ...

The Blue whale population in the Antarctic was drastically reduced by commercial whaling, from 250,000 a century ago to probably below 1000 today. The population has shown no signs of recovery since ...

The Antarctic blue whale can weigh up to 400,000 pounds and stretches to 98 feet in length. The underwater call of the sperm whale, the earth’s loudest, registers at 230 decibels.

She and her colleagues also filmed an Antarctic blue whale mother and calf - the biggest animals on Earth - feeding in the same area. Media caption, Mothers and calves, filmed by an international ...

Footage of humpback whales captured by drones has revealed how the animals manoeuvre their whole bodies when they feed. As BBC News filmed with scientists in the Antarctic Peninsula, one whale ...