Iceland will end commercial whaling by 2024 ... One of the favored targets, the fin whale — which is only second in size to the blue whale — is an endangered species. The annual quota for ...

The Iceland government suspended whale hunting for the rest of the summer on Tuesday, following a report that found the practice contravenes the country's animal welfare standards. “I have taken ...

And sightings of calves are remarkably rare, falling far below what should be expected based on pregnancy rates. For example, just 35 were documented in the Gulf of St. Lawrence over a 45-year period, ...

Blue whales might be some of the most iconic creatures on the planet, but for all their impressive features, there’s still plenty we don’t know about them. One particularly confounding mystery ...

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.

MR. GERRIT S. MILLER'S paper, “Some o'¦'o¦ hitherto unpublished photographs and measurements of the Blue Whale” (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 66, pp. 1-4, Pis. i ...