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 ...

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.

Killer whales, giant turtles and real-life Moby Dicks were among the rare sightings recorded in one of the most extensive ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

When visiting the New Bedford Whaling Museum in southeastern Massachusetts, you might want to be a little careful standing under their 66-foot-long blue whale skeleton. That’s because these blue whale ...

Scientists surveying marine life off our coastline have been watching marine mammals roll in for the Bay Area seafood buffet.

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 ...

Phytoplankton feed zooplankton, tiny animals that live in surface waters, and both are critical food sources for many marine species such as krill and other marine invertebrates, fish, and even marine ...

To understand the behaviors underlying the seasonal patterns in sperm whale vocalizations, MBARI researchers and their collaborators compared seven ... such as blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus).