blue whale

Asked to choose, from all this fleet, the vessel to carry me on a month-long cruise in pursuit of blue whales, I would not have hesitated.

Fin whales are the most predominant in the area, he said, but blue whales and right whales have also passed through New York waters.

One of the best places in the world to see blue whales is here in this region .

If blue whales above water are only putatively blue, then below the surface they go indisputably turquoise.

They tested this hypothesis out on blue whales, a species for which they had data spanning three years.

We have blue whales in the waters around here, off Maldives, around the waters of India.

Blue whales are still endangered, but their population is now on the rise again.

Creatures ranging from blue whales to turtles will be fitted with satellite tracking devices that will record their every movement.

The scientists also found that darker whales, in this case sperm and fin whales, tended to not get sunburned as much as lighter blue whales.

and how blue whales find dense patches of krill by listening to differences in the ambient noise of the ocean.

Underwater microphones could capture whale calls, like these hard-to-find blue whales recorded earlier.

You probably wouldn't have seen orcas or blue whales either had reptile dominance of the seas not gone by the wayside.

Those species include blue whales in the Southern Ocean, whose numbers have been reduced by more than 99 percent.

But for our new cartoon, Odd Todd and I switched to blue whales.

The three species vary in the amount of pigmentation in their skin, with blue whales being the lightest in color and fin whales the darkest.

Blue whales are the biggest animals in the world. Elephants are the biggest animals on land.

some will descend deeper into the ocean where they will dodge jelly fish, sharks, blue whales and hope to survive.

No, the largest sequoias in northern California weigh more than six blue whales.

So blue whales and fin whales produce very low-frequency sounds that can travel over very long ranges.

Blue whales are the biggest animals in the world.

That's the weight of more than 8. 6 million full-grown blue whales, the largest creatures on earth.

In 2007, just six out of 48 blue whales had sunburn.

Blue whales were once considered too difficult to hunt because of their speed and tremendous size .

Modern baleen whales, such as blue whales, can filter small marine creatures from huge volumes of water.

Blue whales typically call at frequencies between 15 and 20 hertz. They use some higher frequencies, but not 52 hertz, Daher says.

They form packs when they hunt blue whales. One takes a bite then another also takes a bite. Even a big blue whale can not stand this.

Yongxian: Blue whales live in the sea. But we can see the whale's bones in our park.

new radio devices should be developed for tracking the endangered blue whales

A new way to look into the behavior of blue whales