THIS IS MS. BLUE. SHE'S A GIANT, 87-FOOT-LONG, BLUE WHALE SKELETON AT THE SEYMOUR MARINE DISCOVERY CENTER IN SANTA CRUZ. "MISS BLUE IS ICONIC BECAUSE FIRST OF ALL, SHE'S BEEN IN OUR COMMUNITY FOR ...

Marine scientists have discovered a troubling phenomenon in the world’s oceans as blue whale vocalizations have dropped dramatically over the past decade. The alarming decline, documented through ...

Ms. Blue, the 87-foot-long blue whale skeleton, has proudly watched over the UC Santa Cruz Seymour Marine Discovery Center for decades, teaching visitors about her ocean home and inspiring interest in ...

From the California coast, you can see a lot of surfers. It's not so easy to see a blue whale. "There's probably only 10,000 in the entire world," marine biologist Nancy Black said. However, at UC ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Read on to discover the 12-inch-thick throat muscles and a 90-second gulp that power its baleen-filter feeding. The biggest whale ...

A blue whale mother and calf are swimming together in the Gulf of California in Baja, Mexico, one of the warm-water places blue whales spend their winter months. Only two blue whale births have ever ...

Only two births of a blue whale have ever been recorded. Mother and calf pairs are also sighted much more rarely than might be expected. The reason, new research suggests, has to do with where and ...

Regarded as some of the largest animals in our oceans, which creature is bigger: the giant squid vs blue whale? While blue whales are well-studied, very little is known about giant squid. But just how ...