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 ...

Blue whales are massive even at birth. When they are born, they measure about 25 feet (7.6 m) long. These gigantic babies drink over 100 gallons (379 liters) of their mother's milk every 24 hours ...

Imagine giving birth to a 1360 kg baby. That's practically the weight of a small car. But it's the typical size of a newborn blue whale. The biggest baby in the animal kingdom. When they nurse ...

Finding out why isn’t just a matter of wanting to catch a glimpse of more blue whale babies; it gives scientists a better understanding of what’s going on with blue whale populations ...

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.