AS nothing seems to have been published in the literature on the hormone-producing organs in the whale, I submit a short communication of the preliminary results 1 of my investigations on the subject.

Care appears to have been taken on the recent Expedition to obtain reliable observations, and it now appears to be substantially confirmed that a blue whale can attain a speed of 20 knots for a ...

Blue whale numbers are still a tiny proportion of what they were and the species is listed as endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. More than 300,000 were killed in ...

A blue whale calf grows at a rate of 200 pounds per day! Although its commercial importance has dwindled, it is the largest animal that ever lived. Some specimens are 100 feet long and weigh 150 tons.

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Join Museum scientists as they reflect on becoming part of this specimen's giant story. Since its arrival at the Museum in the 1880s, the blue whale skeleton has been part of an ever-expanding ...

The male calf measured 10.52m and was born this year, an expert from the National Museum of Nature and Science told Japanese media. Commercial whaling over many years brought blue whales close to ...

As Earth’s largest animals, blue whales are mighty big eaters ... a co-author of the study published in the journal Nature Communications. “Also we find that the vast majority – 99 per ...

A jar of krill specimens with visible eye spots. Blue whales eat huge volumes of these small crustaceans. Blue whales eat krill - tiny, shrimp-like crustaceans that live throughout Earth's oceans. The ...

Baleen whales eat between 10 and 20 tons a day, a 2021 Nature report found. That’s the caloric equivalent of eating 70-80 thousand Big Macs per day, the researchers told NPR. Blue whales are ...