A massive gang of over 60 orcas was seen brutalizing an endangered pygmy blue whale off the coast of Western Australia by a ...

A mysterious whale that has puzzled scientists for decades may not be an anomaly, but a clue to what climate change is doing ...

The inner ear of a blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus), reconstructed from CT scans, shows key anatomical features, including the cochlea, acousto-vestibular nerve, oval window and vestibular ...

Reviewed Work: Description of the Whale (Balænoptera musculus Auct.) in the Possession of the Society; with Remarks on the Classification of Fin Whales by Thomas Dwight, Jr. Review by: J. A. A.

the blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus), exceeding 30 m. More information: Gabrielle Genty et al, Into the Blue: Exploring genetic mechanisms behind the evolution of baleen whales, Gene (2024).

Caption Size comparison of a modern blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) and the extinct Perucetus colossus, known from a fossil discovered in Peru. Researchers initially estimated the mass of ...

But the skull of a blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is more on the scale of a family sedan. Scanning a single skull could take Coombs anywhere from 30 minutes to an entire day. Once she’d assembled ...

This story appears in the March 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. In Acapulco Harbor, amid the white yachts, R.V. Pacific Storm stood out: a working boat, black hulled, a West Coast ...

The blue whale is the largest animal ever known to have lived on Earth. The Latin name musculus means “little mouse” and was the basis for the first description by Linnaeus.

The frequency was much higher than a blue whale or its cousin, the fin whale ... If Whale 52 is indeed a hybrid, its presence suggests that genetic intermingling among Balaenoptera musculus, as blues ...