Feb 10, 2025 by News Staff

Blue whales and other baleen whales, which filter seawater through their mouths to feed on small marine life, once teemed in Earth’s oceans. In the 20th...

Mar 19, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of scientists has produced a reference-quality, long-read-based genome assembly for the blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus). The blue...

Aug 3, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Perucetus colossus substantially pushes the upper limit of skeletal mass in mammals, as well as in aquatic vertebrates in general. This early basilosaurid...

Nov 22, 2017 by News Staff

A group of marine biologists that used motion-sensing tags to track the movements of blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) off the California coast discovered...