Blue whales, the planet’s biggest animals, are becoming quieter, and scientists believe the situation may be more troubling than previously thought. New research has found that the number of blue ...

Earthquake sensors on the ocean floor were built to track tectonic plates, but scientists just discovered they have been ...

Scientists have raised alarms after noticing a significant drop in the in the number of vocalizations from blue whales. Scientists have used specialized underwater hydrophones (aquatic version of ...

More than 40 years after the end of commercial whaling, new research reveals a recent increase in sightings of the world's two largest whale species in the southeastern Atlantic. The findings, ...

The intimate family lives of blue whales, including a blue whale nursing its calf underwater, has been revealed in extraordinary footage captured in a project led by an international marine ecologist ...

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