GLOUCESTER — There was cheering and shouting far off shore on July 4 when a local whale watch boat enjoyed a rare sighting of the largest animal on the planet — a blue whale. Excitement ran through ...

Size shapes the way animals move, hunt, and survive. For example, in the ocean, ginormous creatures rely on their massive ...

Blue Whales are the largest animal ever to have lived, but just reading that doesn’t quite convey their colossal proportions. They are bigger than the biggest dinosaur and weigh as much as 200 cars.

Blue whales don’t just hold the title for the biggest animal on the planet today. The truth is that they’re […] ...

Three titans of the ocean were captured on camera in a “race” off the coast of Australia. Ant Rozetsky via Unsplash Despite being the largest animal on the planet, blue whales maintain a life of ...

A gigantic ancient whale has been uncovered by researchers—and it potentially represents the heaviest animal ever known to exist. Weight estimates of the now-extinct whale species, named Perucetus ...

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A nearly two-decade study of whale songs recorded in the Southern Ocean suggests that blue whales, the largest creatures ever to have roamed the Earth, may be recovering in Antarctica after being ...

Blue whales making an unusual winter appearance. Humpbacks sticking around for months, a pair lunging out of the water in sync with one another in a video making a virtual splash. And thousands of ...

The gargantuan creature, weighing upwards of 750,000 pounds, may have sat in shallow waters, scavenging carcasses 39 million years ago. Reading time 4 minutes A team of paleontologists has announced ...