The Australian researchers analyzed a dataset of baleen whale genes and found that two of the largest species, blue and fin ...

As a result, modern whales are the largest they’ve ever been in history. Take the biggest of the bunch the blue whale. It weighs more than a Boeing 757. Has a belly button the size of a plate.

These estimates put the Perucetus as being as heavy as or heavier than the biggest blue whales ever known – even though it’s considerably shorter at just 17 metres long, compared to blue ...

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While the whale shark is certainly a big animal, it is considerably smaller than the blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus, which is the biggest animal in the world. The largest blue whale ever recorded ...

It's an ancient, long-extinct whale that would have tipped the scales at close to 200 tonnes. Only some of the very biggest blue whale specimens might have rivalled its heft, researchers say.

From animal journeys across oceans to the discovery of dozens of new species in the deep sea, these stories wowed us ...

Blue whales - the largest animals on Earth - are making their home in a part of the Indian Ocean where they were wiped out by whaling decades ago. Researchers and filmmakers in the Seychelles ...

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 ...

A blue whale calf grows at a rate of 200 pounds per day! Although its commercial importance has dwindled, it is the largest animal that ever lived. Some specimens are 100 feet long and weigh 150 tons.