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.

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 ...

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 ...

BBC science correspondent Victoria Gill joined a whale research mission, led by the wildlife charity WWF, in the Antarctic Peninsula ... space on Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket.