The blue whale is the biggest animal ever, weighing up to 200 tons and eating 4 tons of krill daily. It's also the loudest ...

Blue whales are not only the largest animal on earth today but the largest known animal ever to have lived on earth. The largest blue whale ever recorded weighed over 199 tons. Even average-sized blue ...

Almost 40 years ago, deep in the Pacific, a single voice called out a song unlike any other. The sound reverberated through the depths at 52 Hertz, puzzling those listening to this solo ringing out ...

The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is opening a new exhibit this weekend on blue whales, which are the planet's largest animals ever. The special exhibition on blue whales highlights ...

A blue whale swims near the coast of Sri Lanka. Studies from California to New Zealand have shown that certain whale species, such as blue whales, stop singing when heat waves disrupt their food ...

Once upon a time, the blue whale’s call was the ocean’s version of surround sound. Imagine a haunting, bass-heavy symphony echoing across entire ocean basins (one you probably wouldn’t just hear, but ...

Blue whales were once almost lost as a species due to worldwide commercial whaling activities in the early 1900s. "It was subject to whaling so humans almost drove it extinct," said Catherine Kilduff, ...

Tourists and researchers witnessed a pod of orcas hunt and kill an endangered pygmy blue whale. © Robert Pittman, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Every summer ...