A biologist explains the surprising evolutionary math behind how the blue whale became the largest animal that has ever lived ...

The blue whale is famously the largest animal in the world, but this simple fact doesn't do these creatures justice. They aren't just the biggest animals in the world today, but the biggest known to ...

Whales are the largest living animals that have ever existed on this Earth. A blue whale growing to a whopping 110 feet in length, outweighing even the dinosaurs. But curiously their story begins from ...

It’s hard to picture a creature so immense that a person could stand inside one of its arteries, yet that’s the reality of ...

The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is the largest cetacean on the planet. While some have claimed that there were ...

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 ...

A chance encounter at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has led to the restoration of a long-time, massive display of ...

Blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus), the largest extant animals, exhibit a complex interplay of ecological and behavioural adaptations that allow them to thrive in vast, heterogeneous oceanic ...