Blue Whales going silent has become a growing concern for scientists around the world. These gentle giants, known for their deep and powerful underwater songs, are now calling out less and less. In ...

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The waters of the West Coast are falling silent. Somewhere deep in the Pacific, off the sunset-lit cliffs of Big Sur and the fog-wrapped bluffs of Mendocino, the largest animal ever known to live on ...

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The blue whale is the largest animal known to have ever lived, reaching lengths of nearly 100 feet and weighing more than 300 ...

From the California coast, you can see a lot of surfers. It's not so easy to see a blue whale. However, at UC Santa Cruz, you ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A boater spotted the elusive blue whale entangled in hundreds of feet of netting with a red buoy attached to it near the Coronado Islands in Mexico Monday morning. The whale, ...

Whale watching charter owners said they couldn’t remember a time over the last decade when blue whales, the earth’s largest mammals, showed up this late off Southern California. In recent years, their ...

The Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi has partnered with Snap Inc. to bring 13.8 billion years of history to life. Here is ...