SM BAY — Dozens of giant blue whales are putting on a show along the Southern California coast, and one Santa Monica resident was treated to a front row seat. While paddle boarding north from Hermosa ...

The blue whale, which uses baleen to filter its prey from ocean water and can reach lengths of over 100 feet, is the largest vertebrate animal that has ever lived. On the list of the planet’s most ...

Cetaceans are among the most intelligent creatures in the ocean and many whales have used their big brains to develop cunning ...

Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the biggest animal that has ever existed. Whales can be found in every ocean, ...

“The blue whale is the largest and loudest animal on Earth.” The blue whale is the largest animal on Earth and likely the largest animal ever to have lived. While this ocean mammoth is dubbed “blue,” ...

Scientists may finally have an explanation for the longstanding mystery of why blue whale calves are rarely sighted, an advance that could help better conserve the critically endangered species. There ...

Over the years we’ve seen whales in the wild enough times that I thought we had pretty much done it all. Then I saw a friend’s striking photos from the annual gray whale migration to Mexico’s Baja ...

The employees of the company Naturaliste Charters Whale Watching could hardly believe their eyes when they saw what this orca group was up to.

It’s hard to picture a creature so immense that a person could stand inside one of its arteries, yet that’s the reality of the blue whale—the largest animal ever to live on Earth. A detail like that ...

THIS IS MS. BLUE. SHE'S A GIANT, 87-FOOT-LONG, BLUE WHALE SKELETON AT THE SEYMOUR MARINE DISCOVERY CENTER IN SANTA CRUZ. "MISS BLUE IS ICONIC BECAUSE FIRST OF ALL, SHE'S BEEN IN OUR COMMUNITY FOR ...