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The risk that whales can get entangled in fishing nets appears to have been underestimated, according to a new study. >> read more …
Although many people think of dinosaurs as being the largest creatures to have lived on Earth, the true largest known animal is still here today—the blue whale. How whales were able to become so large has long been of interest. >> read more …
An astonishing new graphic shows how blue whales face excessively reduced mobility due to an overrun of hundreds of fishing boats in one of the endangered species’ main feeding grounds in Chilean Patagonia. >> read more …
Researchers analysed sound recordings from the Arabian Sea coast of Oman to find a previously unrecognised population of the highly endangered mammals. >> read more …
The resurgence of blue whales around the island of South Georgia is real and has probably been under way for a little while now, say scientists. >> read more …
Scientists based in Scotland have discovered that critically endangered blue whales have returned to the southern Atlantic for the first time since they were hunted to the brink of extinction 50 years ago. >> read more …
Remoras — known for hitching rides on whales and sharks — swim surprisingly freely over the surfaces formed by their hosts. >> read more …
For years, wildlife experts have been fascinated by the singing of blue whales. New research led by Stanford researchers suggests that whales tend to change their singing times before they migrating south. >> read more …
For the last five years, an underwater microphone deployed by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, positioned on the Monterey Bay seafloor, several hundred feet beneath the surface of the ocean, has been recording the sounds of sea — including the spooky songs of blue whales. >> read more …
Een vergissing is menselijk. Maar als blauwe vinvissen gewone vinvissen kiezen om mee te paren, kan dat ernstige gevolgen hebben. En ze hebben al problemen genoeg. >> lees verder …
A blue whale has been spotted off the coast of Sydney in Australia for possibly only the third time in almost 100 years, wildlife authorities say. >> read more …
In de jaren 1880 meldden walvisvaarders reeds mogelijke kruisingen tussen gewone vinvis (Balaenoptera physalus) en blauwe vinvis (Balaenoptera musculus). Meer dan een eeuw later konden wetenschappers genetisch aantonen dat kruisingen tussen gewone en blauwe vinvis regelmatig voorkomen. Maar men wist nog steeds niet of deze kruisingen ook vruchtbaar waren. Daar kwam recent verandering in. >> … Meer lezen
Dinosaurs were big, but these are the largest animals in the history of the planet—and we’re just beginning to understand the reasons for their size. >> read more …
A blue whale can be up to 33 metres in length for a female and weigh as much as 180,000kg.The magnificent but endangered blue whale is the largest creature to have lived on Earth.
Observations of a tagged blue whale show that it may have learned to avoid ships. >> read more …
Reconstructing a blue whale skeleton is an art form—so is keeping it clean. >> read more …
Een meerjarig onderzoek door wetenschappers uit onder meer Nieuw-Zeeland, Australië, Schotland en Spanje, concludeert dat bultruggen tot de walvissen behoren die bijna volledig hersteld zijn en dat de bedreigde blauwe vinvis veelbelovende tekenen vertoont van een comeback. >> lees verder of lees het originele artikel …
When blue whales dive for food they can reduce their heart rates to as low as 2 beats per minute. This is well below the rates the large animals were calculated to have. Previous predictions were that the whales would have a resting heart rate of 15 beats per minute. >> Read more …
The bowel movements of the largest creature on Earth have been captured on film and researchers say it can help piece together missing information of their once-mysterious behaviour. >> read more …
New genetic research has identified fin whales in the northern Pacific Ocean as a separate subspecies, reflecting a revolution in marine mammal taxonomy as scientists unravel the genetics of enormous animals otherwise too large to fit into laboratories. >> read more …
La baleine bleue émet des sons plus graves et moins forts depuis quelques années. La faute à la pollution sonore ou au contraire grâce à la protection de son espèce ? >> continuer …