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 ...

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 ...

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.

And no matter where they are or what they eat, whales are almost always on the hunt for a tasty meal. Blue whales are the largest animals ever to have lived. These colossal cetaceans often reach 30 ...

MR. GERRIT S. MILLER'S paper, “Some o'¦'o¦ hitherto unpublished photographs and measurements of the Blue Whale” (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 66, pp. 1-4, Pis. i ...

Join Museum scientists as they reflect on becoming part of this specimen's giant story. Since its arrival at the Museum in the 1880s, the blue whale skeleton has been part of an ever-expanding ...