Where are all the baby blue whales? Scientists may have finally cracked the mystery - Blue whale calves are rarely seen with ...

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

The recovery of baleen whales, including endangered blue whales, is now threatened by multiple human sources, including underwater noise, changing availability of food driven by human-induced ...

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.

Only two blue whale births have ever been recorded in human history, both decades ago. This remains an extraordinary mystery given there used to be hundreds of thousands of blue whales before ...