H unted nearly to extinction during 20th century whaling, the Antarctic blue whale, the world's largest animal, went from a population size of roughly 200,000 to little more than 300.

The Antarctic blue whale can weigh up to 400,000 pounds and stretches to 98 feet in length. The underwater call of the sperm whale, the earth’s loudest, registers at 230 decibels. For context ...

Hunted nearly to extinction during 20th century whaling, the Antarctic blue whale, the world’s largest animal, went from a population size of roughly 200,000 to little more than 300. The most ...

Ten years ago, Dr. Virginia Andrews-Goff was riding the bowsprit of a six-meter boat, as a 30-meter, 120-ton Antarctic blue whale surfaced alongside. That day in the Southern Ocean, she became the ...

Some populations, like the Antarctic blue whale, were reduced by more than 99% and have been struggling to recover, even though most nations ended commercial whaling in the mid-1980s. Today a new ...

Antarctic blue whales, a critically endangered species ... coasts of Antarctica between 2006 and 2021. The buoys recorded whale vocalizations, known as songs, researchers said.

Two satellite tagged Antarctic blue whales have provided the first insights into the movement and behaviour of these critically endangered ocean giants on their ...

The new research, published in the journal Scientific Reports on Thursday, also recorded aggregations of up to 150 individual whales feeding just off the coast of Antarctica -- a phenomenon not ...