For almost two decades the team has been using free-floating "sonobuoys" as "listening stations," to detect, track and record Antarctic blue whale and other whale sounds. Spending more than eight ...

She and her colleagues also filmed an Antarctic blue whale mother and calf - the biggest animals on Earth - feeding in the same area. Mothers and calves, filmed by an international research team ...

Up to 26,545 blue whale songs in the Antarctic were captured by scientists in a study. They used - for the first time - new acoustical detection and tracking techniques to locate and observe them.

Webjørn Barstad, CEO of the new company, Aker BioMarine Antarctic, said developing new technologies to mitigate risks of whale mortalities is a top priority ... a little bit out of the blue, I think ...

When I visited in the Antarctic summer month of December with ... used in what was once the world’s only on-land and biggest whale abattoir face a similar fate. Dead penguins and a lone departed ...

Antarctic krill are one of the most abundant ... Fin whales – the second largest baleen whale after the blue whale, had been hunted to near extinction. Now they are growing in number, returning ...

Argentina will make available a Coast Guard vessel in support of the ‘Antarctic Blue Whale Project’ and associated research activities planned for the 201314 season and coming years ...

From animal journeys across oceans to the discovery of dozens of new species in the deep sea, these stories wowed us ...

Amongst other places, the blue whale is native to the Southern Ocean, which surrounds Antarctica. The massive whale is slightly longer than three London double decker buses parked in a line ...

To see so many blues back in the waters around South Georgia is tremendously encouraging Scientists say they have seen a remarkable collection of blue whales in the coastal waters around the UK ...