A biologist explains the surprising evolutionary math behind how the blue whale became the largest animal that has ever lived ...

Blue whales don’t just hold the title for the biggest animal on the planet today. The truth is that they’re the biggest animal to ever exist, full stop. Bigger than any dinosaur, bigger than anything ...

Monterey Bay Whale Watch spotted their first blue whale of the season on June 20, the organization announced. A video taken that morning shows an aerial view of the massive mammal gliding just beneath ...

“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,” ...

Blue whales have been considered the largest creatures to ever live on Earth. With a maximum length of nearly 30 meters and weighing nearly 200 tons, they are the all-time undisputed heavyweight ...

Feedback has been a science journalist for more years than we care to remember, and as a result we have come across our fair share of bizarre units of measurement. The human mind struggles with the ...

Minke whales are the smallest of the rorqual group of baleen whales, which use a “lunge feeding” strategy to capture large amounts of small prey such as krill. Credit: Duke Marine Robotics and Remote ...

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 ...

Blue whales have the biggest babies in the world. Here's how other animal babies compare in size. Blue whale calves are the largest animal babies in the world, clocking in at a whopping 1360kg — ...

Boaters in New Jersey waters got the sighting of a lifetime when a blue whale swam into view. “We witnessed the largest living animal in the world off the coast of Cape May,” Cape May Whale Watch and ...