When University of Pisa paleontologists first found a prehistoric whale's skeleton 13 years ago among rocks in southern ...

Blue whales are the longest animals on Earth, typically reaching lengths of up to 100 feet (30.5 meters). That's about the length of two school buses. Antarctic blue whales, a subspecies of blue ...

Scientists dive into the genomes of whales, elephants, and other animal giants looking for new weapons in the fight against ...

I can’t remember if I’ve seen a whale”. A close encounter with one of these larger-than-life leviathans is a life-changing ...

Take the biggest of the bunch the blue whale. It weighs more than a Boeing 757. Has a belly button the size of a plate. And its network of blood vessels, if you laid them out in a line ...

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 ...

blue, fin, and humpback whales. Lunge filter feeding involves a rapid acceleration and the engulfment of an enormous volume of prey-laden water, the size of which is roughly the size of a school bus.

Blue whales are the largest animals ever to have lived. These colossal cetaceans often reach 30 metres in length and can weigh up to 180 tonnes - so they need to eat a lot to keep them swimming. But ...