Discover the blue whale, the biggest animal to ever live. Learn its size, diet, and surprising facts about this ocean giant.

Whale biologist Carrie Newell spotted four blue whales feeding about 3 to 4 miles offshore from Depoe Bay, Oregon on June 27 — an exceptionally rare event in the state’s coastal waters. Newell, ...

The biggest whale species on Earth is a monster! There are plenty of large creatures within the Cetacea order (which contains dolphins, porpoises, and whales), but one surpasses them all. Meet the ...

Feedback has been a science journalist for more years than we care to remember, and as a result we have come across our fair share of bizarre units of measurement. The human mind struggles with the ...

A recent blue whale sighting off the coast of New England has surprised researchers. Scientists think the whales may have appeared in the unlikely location due to ocean conditions creating a temporary ...

A blue whale calf with its mother near the coast of island Pico (Azores)© tane-mahuta/iStock / Getty Images Plus via Getty Images "The blue whale is the largest and loudest animal on Earth." The blue ...

The Blue Whale Story exhibit conservator, Susan Green, inspects the frame holding a life-sized reproduction of an ...

A blue whale’s heart weighs approximately 400 pounds and pumps roughly 60 gallons of blood with every single beat. That organ, often compared in size to a small car, operates at extremes that ...

A 100-year-old equation and a fibre-optic cable off the coast of Svalbard led researchers to discover they could detect ...

Blue whales are the largest mammals in the world, and they spend much of their lives roaming the deep ocean, where they feed on vast amounts of krill. Blue whales usually inhabit the open sea and are ...