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So it was with great pleasure and solace that Santa Barbara residents gathered for the first 2025 Blue Whale Poetry reading ...

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F or a long time, Greenland – the world’s largest island – has been an enigma to outsiders (not least among them Donald Trump ...

a partial skeleton of a sperm whale and blue whale jaw bones. “These were the hanging skeletons but we had many different ...

J35, a southern resident killer whale also known as Tahlequah, carried her child's body on her head for 17 days across a distance of 1,000 miles in 2018, according to the Center for Whale Research.

“Similar participation in the process is seen in primates,” Gaydos said in an email. “Killer whales, like chimpanzees, like us, are social animals. Why wouldn’t the whole group participate ...

North Atlantic right whales were subject to "Yankee whaling," which ended around 1910, he said. Given the animals' slow rate of reproduction, the small number of whales that weren't hunted were ...

Southern right whales, like this mother and calf, can live for 130 years or more – almost twice as long as previously understood. Credit: Els Vermeulen Right whales can live over 130 years, but North ...

The killer whale, named J35 by researchers studying her, welcomed a daughter into the world shortly before Christmas - called J61. It is the third calf that researchers are aware of that J35 has ...

And now more than ever, the odds of seeing a whale or two have increased significantly. "I've never seen a blue whale in the wild out here my whole life until, you know, the first part of the 2000 ...