Blue whales are not only the largest animal on earth today but the largest known animal ever to have lived on earth. The ...

Second only in size to the blue whale, seeing a fin whale surface from the ocean's depths can leave you spellbound!

Baleen whales are some of the most unique and breathtaking animals. These huge marine mammals are some of the biggest to have ...

The size of the files will also vary depending ... use the internationally agreed upon standard of measurement – the blue whale?” The blue whale genome is 2.4 billion bases in length.

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 ...

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 ...

A gang of more than 60 orcas brutally attacked and killed a 59-foot-long (18 meters) pygmy blue whale, leaving a nearby whalewatching tour shocked, new video footage shows. The dramatic incident ...

The episode, witnessed off the Australian coast, offers a rare glimpse into the brutal efficiency of the ocean’s top predator.

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 ...