Dreams of putting a 70-foot long blue whale skeleton on display are inching closer to reality, after the mammal washed ashore on the Oregon Coast eight years ago.
I’m back at the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport Oregon, part of the Oregon State University campus harboring marine mammal-fisheries-benthic-ocean researchers and students. The topic: How humans decimated whale populations through hundreds of years of industrial whaling, leaving some species and populations on the brink of extinction. But despite these impacts, many whale populations
A new study of New Zealand blue whales’ vocalizations indicates the whales are present year-round in the South Taranaki Bight and their behavior is influenced by environmental conditions in the
According to a new study of New Zealand blue whale vocalizations, the whales are present year-round in the South Taranaki Bight and their behavior is influenced by the region's environmental conditions.