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A massive gang of over 60 orcas was seen brutalizing an endangered pygmy blue whale off the coast of Western Australia by a ...

The diet of each whale species is closely related to their size. Blue whales are examples of baleen whales, filter feeders who use jaws full of brush-like bristles to separate prey from the ocean ...

A pod of more than 60 orcas hunted and killed an estimated 18-metre-long pygmy blue whale off Western Australia's south coast ...

As a last act, he and his mates painted their initials inside the whale's condo-size mouth. In 1963, the same year that blue whales gained some measure of international protection, Natural History ...

The blue whale is the largest animal ever known to have lived on Earth. Blue whales are largest of all baleen whales and are found worldwide. They have a long slender body with a proportionally ...

This blue whale skull is one of the largest in any collection ... the skull and model entertained visitors who came to marvel at a whale of such size that it could provide “commodious quarters ...

The frequency was much higher than a blue whale or its cousin, the fin whale, leaving scientists to ponder the mystery of Whale 52. The leviathan has been heard many times since, but never seen.

Join Museum scientists as they reflect on becoming part of this specimen's giant story. Since its arrival at the Museum in the 1880s, the blue whale skeleton has been part of an ever-expanding ...