The blue whale is the largest animal on Earth. It plays a vital role in the ocean ecosystem. These whales grow to massive ...

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

Not only is it super rare to see a blue whale give birth – it’s only been recorded twice, once in 1911 and again in 1946 – but it’s also incredibly uncommon to see blue whale calves in ...

Instead, the sign of a blue whale in the area is typically its blow, which can reach up to 30 feet into the air, and its fluke as it dives back down for food. "From a filming standpoint, it takes ...

But across various blue whale populations, high pregnancy rates of 33-50% annually seem to contradict the average 3.1% rate of sightings of blue whales involving mother-calf pairs.