In this period the whale went out on many food-foraging missions, diving up and down in the water. His longest dive lasted for 16.5 minutes and the maximum depth he swam underwater was 600 feet ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. A blue whale’s heart can beat as few as two times a minute. The discovery comes from data collected during researchers’ first few attempts to ...

Blue whale births remain unseen because they occur in winter, when researchers typically aren't observing them. By the time ...

Scientists may finally have an explanation for the longstanding mystery of why blue ... that blue whales travel to in winter and spring. “For summer feeding areas, the conceptual model predicts ...

But across various blue whale populations, high pregnancy rates of 33-50% annually seem to contradict the average 3.1% rate of sightings of blue whales involving mother-calf pairs.

MR. GERRIT S. MILLER'S paper, “Some o'¦'o¦ hitherto unpublished photographs and measurements of the Blue Whale” (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 66, pp. 1-4, Pis. i ...