Despite their microscopic size, plankton are crucial for marine ecosystems. They act as the base of the entire food chain in ...

Blue zones are big on breakfast, says longevity researcher Dan Buettner. But their breakfasts are usually hearty and healthy.

Scientists at UC Santa Cruz and local entrepreneurs are collaborating on a $350,000 restoration of the Seymour Center’s blue ...

Gliding gracefully through the marine waters, the blue whale is considered to be the largest creature to have ever existed.

These maps trace the migratory superhighways that connect whales to critical breeding, feeding, and social habitats across ...

“In terms of weight it could eat a fully grown African elephant every day,” author and biologist Mark Carwardine wrote of Sri Lanka’s blue whales in his On the Trail of the Whale ...

Even average-sized blue whales are massive, weighing around 350,000 pounds. That’s about the same as 30 adult male African elephants. Despite their huge size, they eat a diet of tiny shrimp-like ...

Research Associate, Institute of Marine Sciences and NOAA-NMFS Fisheries Ecology Division, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, University of California, Santa Cruz Spanning more octaves than a ...

Female blue whales feed heavily in the summer because they largely refrain from eating when nursing their young. Newborn blue whales are born measuring over 22 feet in length and weighing around 2 ...

Blue whales are fascinating animals ... We also want to gain further insights into what they eat and how the changing climate is affecting their distribution and behaviour in the tropical waters ...

The Antarctic blue whale can weigh up to 400,000 pounds ... of water and straining it through the baleen plates. Baleen whales eat between 10 and 20 tons a day, a 2021 Nature report found.