The huge, 17-metre-long whale, which was believed to have very dense bones, was initially thought to weigh as much as 340 ...

The blue whale is the largest animal ever known to have lived on Earth. Blue whales are largest of all baleen whales and are found worldwide. They have a long slender body with a proportionally ...

While this ocean mammoth is dubbed “blue,” its color is more a reflection of the water it swims in — its skin is actually ...

Hunted nearly to extinction during 20th century whaling, the Antarctic blue whale, the world's largest animal, went from a ...

Only some of the very biggest blue whale specimens might have rivalled ... "The fossils were actually discovered 13 years ago, but their size and shape meant it took three years just to get ...

"The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet yet despite its size it could have easily slipped by Sydney's coast unnoticed," Andrew Marshall of the NPWS said in a news release. Mr Marshall ...

Hunted nearly to extinction during 20th century whaling, the Antarctic blue whale, the world's largest animal, went from a population size of roughly 200,000 to little more than 300. The most recent ...

At 111 feet wide, 104 feet long, 18 feet high, and 600 feet around this stunning organism in the southwest Pacific Ocean is ...