The blue whale is the largest animal known to have ever lived on Earth, larger even than the biggest dinosaurs. At the center ...

A creature weighing tens of thousands of pounds just launched most of its body clean out of the ocean and rotated through the ...

Among all the creatures that have swum, walked, flown, or crawled across the planet, none has matched the sheer bulk of the blue whale. The animal outweighs the heaviest dinosaurs and dwarfs every ...

Surviving inside of a giant sea creature has become a classic "fish tale" of human resilience and redemption. In the latest ...

Blue whales hold the title of the world's largest animals, even out-sizing most dinosaurs. Learn just how massive these marine giants are and what threats they face today. The blue whale is renowned ...

The pair is among the last-ever captive whales from Canada, since the country banned whale and dolphin captivity in 2019, ...

Despite protections, blue whales remain endangered, primarily because of the risk of collisions with ships. MBARI's Blue ...

I love sharing interesting and unexpected observations on animal behavior, especially those that are baffling to the scientists themselves. Along these lines, I just learned of a fascinating essay by ...

Any way you slice it, whales are fascinating animals. They vary greatly in size and behavior, have rich and deep cognitive and emotional lives, and many can communicate and negotiate their social and ...

The death of a beloved white beluga whale has turned into a mystery in Norway as animal rights groups speculate whether he was actually assassinated. The beluga, nicknamed Hvaldimir, rose to fame in ...

Kristi West, a lead researcher from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa's Health and Stranding Lab, shares about her study of ...