As the largest animal on earth and the largest extant fish species, respectively, blue whales and whale sharks have few natural predators. Still, they face environmental challenges that threaten their ...

We actually found that these animals are here quite a bit more often than we had realized,” says Will Oestreich, a researcher ...

The blue whale is renowned as the Earth’s largest animal, taking that title today by quite some distance. That holds true even stretching back through time as these enormous marine mammals are even ...

Whale watchers touring the coast of Cape May got a rare glimpse of a blue whale — the world's largest animal — during a wildlife research trip earlier this month. The sighting happened Sept.

It was blue, and it was big. Really, really big. And for South Jersey, quite rare. On Sept. 14, about 50 passengers and crew members aboard the Cape May Whale Watch & Research Center’s American Star ...

Siphonophores are unusual animals made up of individual organisms called "zooids," which each have a distinct function — ...

Last weekend, about 50 passengers and crew aboard the Cape May Whale Watch and Research Center vessel American Star got a view of a blue whale. Such a sighting off the coast of New Jersey is rare ...

Located in Baja California Sur and along the shores of the Gulf of California, the historic town of Loreto is an ideal winter ...

Unfortunately for me, I did not see a whale, of any kind, while out on the Atlantic Ocean. It was a fun day nonetheless and we saw plenty of dolphins, which was a great sight up close (Photo Below ...

Scientists estimate that Deep Blue weighs about 5,000 pounds, less than the low-end of the average ... They use these senses to find prey and then ambush it with a burst of speed and a series of ...

How Baleen Whales Have Adapted Over the Past 50 Million Years Aug. 22, 2024 — The largest dataset of cetacean genes ever collated has helped scientists deep dive 'into the blue' to fathom the ...