Follow one scientist in the search for one particular pack of killer whales, because for him, this mission is personal ...

Hunted nearly to extinction during 20th century whaling, the Antarctic blue whale, the world's largest animal, went from a population size of roughly 200,000 to little more than 300. The most ...

She and her colleagues also filmed an Antarctic blue whale mother and calf - the biggest animals on Earth - feeding in the same area. Mothers and calves, filmed by an international research team ...

Hunted nearly to extinction during 20th century whaling, the Antarctic blue whale, the world’s largest animal, went from a population size of roughly 200,000 to little more than 300. The most ...

Argentina will make available a Coast Guard vessel in support of the ‘Antarctic Blue Whale Project’ and associated research activities planned for the 201314 season and coming years ...

For almost two decades the team has been using free-floating "sonobuoys" as "listening stations," to detect, track and record Antarctic blue whale and other whale sounds. Spending more than eight ...

Today most great whale species in the Southern Ocean remain severely depleted when compared with pre-whaling levels. More than 200,000 Antarctic blue whales used to live in the Southern Ocean – but ...

After centuries of industrial whaling, the Antarctic blue whale is considered "critically endangered". At times, only a few hundred specimens were still alive. However, the numbers now appear to ...

The critically endangered blue whale seems to be returning to the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia after a hiatus of over 50 years. Over 42,000 of their species were killed in the same waters ...