The blue whale is the biggest species in the ocean. It's also the largest animal on Earth.

The blue whale is the largest animal on Earth. It plays a vital role in the ocean ecosystem. These whales grow to massive ...

Loggerhead sea turtle hatchlings are being drawn miles inland, where they risk falling to predators or dying from exhaustion ...

While many shark species inhabit the ocean’s upper waters, some prefer its colder depths, with a few species growing to ...

Blue whales are still historically large animals: Some can grow to more than 100 feet. Perucetus colossus was “possibly the heaviest animal ever,” said study co-author Alberto Collareta, a ...

The most massive animal to have ever lived is still swimming around today. The blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus, regularly tips the scales at over 100 tonnes.

This is partially because blue whales typically live in the open ocean rather than close to shore, dive to depths of 315 meters, and tend to sink when they die.

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However, in the last 500 years, the pattern has shifted dramatically, and now, size has overtaken all other factors as the biggest predictor of likely extinction, and by a lot.