Could a Blue Whale's Fart Contain a ... they would generally be accepted as a fart to any human encountering them. Obviously blue whales, ... The water erupts just ahead of our boat—a blow of ...

In 2015, when a dead blue whale washed ashore in Newfoundland, Canada, a dissection team from the Royal Ontario Museum managed to extract and measure its heart. At 400 pounds, it was undoubtedly ...

Editor’s Note: Asha de Vos is a marine biologist and TED Fellow whose research focuses on the blue whale population around Sri Lanka. She is a graduate of the universities of St. Andrews and ...

The human heart, in comparison, ... On an inflatable research boat, ... The EKG data shows that a single beat of the blue whale’s heart takes about 1.8 seconds, ...

WASHINGTON – Using a bright orange electrocardiogram machine attached with suction cups to the body of a blue whale, scientists for the first time have measured the heart rate of the world’s … ...

“The whale did not attack the boat.” It was “a collision between a whale 100 percent focused on feeding, and a fishing boat dead in the water (not making any noise),” she says.

The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is the largest animal known to have existed in history.These enormous marine mammals have been known to reach up to 110 feet (34 meters) long, and the ...

The Center has been leading the charge to protect marine mammals from ship and boat strikes, with a particular focus on the mighty blue whale. Despite clear evidence that collisions are killing ...

Seeing whale poop, colored red thanks to the whale’s diet, was the first clue that Sri Lanka’s blue whales don’t migrate between feeding and breeding areas. A. de Vos ...