Marine biologist Carrie Newell photographed four blue whales — the largest animals on Earth — 3 miles off Depoe Bay.

A new forecasting tool will help scientists predict blue whale traffic, as the ocean behemoths make their annual migration.The tool allows researchers to post online maps showing likely “hot … ...

Here’s how it works. A blue whale spouts off Moresby Island, British Columbia, Canada. The sex lives of these whales remain mysterious, as scientists have never documented the behemoths mating.

Whales eat a variety of ocean life, depending on what species you mean. Some have teeth and swallow prey whole while others filter through baleen.

Predicted patterns of whale-ship collisions for blue, fin, humpback and sperm whales. Areas in purple are places of higher ship-strike risk, with high levels of shipping traffic and high habitat ...

Whales eat a variety of ocean life, depending on what species you mean. Some have teeth and swallow prey whole while others filter through baleen.

Blue whales are the largest creatures ever to live on the planet, with silvery bodies that can grow more than 80 feet and up to 165 tons.

“As whale populations rebound, it is now essential that CCAMLR includes recovered (humpback whales) and recovering (blue and fin) whales as monitoring species,” the authors write in the study.

LAMBERT: Diving deeper solves this problem but adds distance, especially because penguins, sea turtles and whales have to come up for air.

Hydrophones picked up the vocalizations of the big blue whales as they track krill, revealing more about their mysterious lives.

Blue whales will migrate up the West Coast this summer, giving San Diegans the chance to see these massive and graceful animals in local waters.Known as the largest animals in the world, blue whale… ...