Its explanation hints at when and where the unseen births are happening and where blue whale calves spend their earliest months. The findings offer some hope for the health of the population.

One particularly confounding mystery is why their calves are so rarely seen – but a new study has come up with an interesting proposal as to why. Not only is it super rare to see a blue whale ...

Scientists may finally have an explanation for the longstanding mystery of why blue whale calves are rarely sighted, an advance that could help better conserve the critically endangered species.

Blue whale calves and births have seldom been documented. A new study may help unravel the mystery. Photo from NOAA Fisheries Service Despite being members of the largest species on the planet ...

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.

“British blue cattle tend to be more efficient with faster growth rates, higher carcass weights and a lower age at slaughter, ...

A new study by Trevor Branch, a professor in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, suggests a hypothesis to explain why ...