In the ocean, different animals have their own unique self-defence strategies to help them survive predators. Some, like crustaceans have hard shells to protect their vulnerable parts. Others go on ...

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

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

Hunted nearly to extinction during 20th century whaling, the Antarctic blue whale, the world's largest animal, went from a population size of roughly 200,000 to little more than 300. The most recent ...

Five families of orcas joined forces to hunt down and feed on a blue whale, the largest creature on the planet, in what was an extremely rare sighting off Australia. More than 60 orcas worked together ...

Blue whales making an unusual winter appearance. Humpacks 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 waters of the West Coast are falling silent. Somewhere deep in the Pacific, off the sunset-lit cliffs of Big Sur and the fog-wrapped bluffs of Mendocino, the largest animal ever known to live on ...

Whale watchers touring the coast of Cape May got a rare glimpse of a blue whale — the world's largest animal — during a wildlife research trip earlier this month. The sighting happened Sept. 12 on a ...