WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The first study to methodically calculate how much food blue whales and some of their close relatives eat has yielded a simple answer: a whole lot. The blue whale, the largest ...

Blue whales are enormous, magnificent creatures. The largest mammals known to have existed, they can grow to be more than 100 feet in length and weigh more than 100 tons, and they don’t even have ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Long baleen whale mothers are more likely to have female calves than males, according to a new study led by the University of Washington. The findings contradict a popular evolutionary hypothesis ...

A humpback whale calf playing in the warm waters of Moorea in French Polynesia. Once the calves are strong enough, they will make the long journey with their mother back to the feeding grounds of ...

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A restoration of Mammalodon by Brian Choo (published in Fitzgerald, 2009). In the introduction to his 1883 lecture on whales, the English anatomist William Henry Flower said; Few natural groups ...

Humpback and bowhead whales create their own food nets from specialized bristles in their mouths to more efficiently nab fishy morsels, a new study of baleen whales suggests. When these whales feed, ...

The baleen whale carcass discovered in Singapore waters earlier this month is believed to have died after colliding with a ...

CT scans of a 25 million year-old fossil skull show the Aetiocetus weltoni had both teeth and baleen, unlike modern whales. A strange phenomenon happens with modern blue whales, humpback whales and ...

In 1850, the Honolulu Friend published an unusual editorial from an unexpected source. Whalers who scoured the seas for the giant aquatic mammals knew well that large whales were beginning to become ...