“The blue whale is the largest and loudest animal on Earth.” The blue whale is the largest animal on Earth and likely the ...

Move over, blue whales. There could be a new heavyweight champ in town. Fossilized vertebrae and ribs from a newly discovered ancient whale suggest that it could have outweighed modern blue whales, ...

The blue whale has long been considered the largest animal to have ever existed, even dwarfing the biggest known dinosaurs. But now a new species threatens to steal the crown, and upends what we ...

In the wide world of whale sex, the largest of all species also ranks among the most private. At least now, we know where to look. Marine biologists in Timor-Leste, a modest island situated along a ...

Regarded as some of the largest animals in our oceans, which creature is bigger: the giant squid vs blue whale? While blue whales are well-studied, very little is known about giant squid. But just how ...

Whale watchers touring the coast of Cape May got a rare glimpse of a blue whale — the world's largest animal — during a wildlife research trip earlier this month. The sighting happened Sept. 12 on a ...

The endangered blue whale is the largest animal to have ever lived on Earth — let alone California. At up to 400,000 pounds (the weight of 33 elephants!) and as long as 90 feet, they migrate up the ...

Sixty orcas were filmed killing a 59-foot pygmy blue whale in Bremer Canyon off the coast of Western Australia on April 7. The brutal footage shows the pod of killer whales living up to their name, ...