Then the whale’s massive tongue forces the water out through the thin, overlapping baleen plates. Thousands of krill are left ...

The blue whale is the biggest animal on the planet. Despite its huge size, it feeds on tiny creatures called krill. Blue ...

The blue whale is renowned as the Earth’s largest animal, taking that title today by quite some distance. That holds true even stretching back through time as these enormous marine mammals are even ...

Blue whales - the largest animals on Earth - are making their home in a part of the Indian Ocean where they were wiped out by whaling decades ago. Researchers and filmmakers in the Seychelles ...

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.

How Baleen Whales Have Adapted Over the Past 50 Million Years Aug. 22, 2024 — The largest dataset of cetacean genes ever collated has helped scientists deep dive 'into the blue' to fathom the ...

A naturalist was left astounded after taking a once-in-a-lifetime photograph of a bewildered seal in the mouth of a humpback whale after the 40-ton marine mammal accidentally swallowed it.

Last weekend, about 50 passengers and crew aboard the Cape May Whale Watch and Research Center vessel American Star got a view of a blue whale. Such a sighting off the coast of New Jersey is rare ...

Nobody knows exactly how many whales are ship-strike victims every year, because most of them sink after they're hit. But blue whales, humpbacks, and fin whales are on the endangered list ...

An endangered whale is swimming freely after locals stepped in to help. Somehow a juvenile pygmy blue whale wedged itself underneath a privately owned pier in New Zealand. It took a rescue crew ...

Why they're awesome: The largest animal on Earth is thought to be the blue whale, but these strange sea creatures can grow even longer — reaching up to 150 feet (46 meters) in length.