In all of human history, only two blue whale births have been recorded, with both having taken place decades ago. It is unclear why blue whale births and even calves themselves are so rarely seen ...

Whale song and human speech are very similar Seven months after being born and already over 16 meters long, the calves are weaned and stop associating with their mothers. “Blue whales produce ...

The blue whale is the biggest animal that has ever existed ... A sperm whale's brain weighs about 17 pounds (8 kilograms) — ...

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 ...

young blue whales have long managed to elude human detection. In fact, just two blue whale births have ever been documented — off South Africa in 1911, and off Sri Lanka in 1946. And sightings ...

Krill make up the vast majority of a blue whale's diet. The blue whale is a filter-feeder. Its throat has an expandable, pleated structure to engulf a volume of water and prey that is greater than the ...