Captain Hansen said, "Bigger than dinosaurs." At 90 feet long and weighing one hundred thousand pounds, a blue whale's heart is about the size of a VW Bug.

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,” its color is more a reflection of the water it swims ...

The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is the largest cetacean on the planet. While some have claimed that there were dinosaurs that topped its size, there is no scientific data to support that ...

Two new species of massive dinosaurs - almost as big as blue whales - have been discovered in China. Scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences say the previously unknown species may have ...

Weighing in up to 330,000 pounds and 110 feet long, the blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is bigger than even the largest dinosaurs, despite subsisting on a tiny organism called krill (in huge ...

Dinosaurs are famous for their size, but the largest known animal to have ever existed is still with us today: the blue whale. Now a new study reports the discovery of a huge fossilized jawbone ...

A newly described species of marine reptile could be the largest to ever swim the world’s oceans. The “giant fish lizard” lived more than 200 million years ago, and may give the blue whale a ...

The smallest dinosaurs were about the size of a pigeon, while the largest stretched longer than a blue whale. Through the Jurassic and Cretaceous, between 66 and 200 million years ago, dinosaurs ...

Slimming down a colossal fossil whale Date: February 29, 2024 Source: University of California - Davis Summary: A 30 million year-old fossil whale may not be the heaviest animal of all time after ...