Whale watching season has begun off the coast of San Diego, and in at least one case, it’s had an unforgettable beginning. San Diego Whale Watch said it recently spotted its first blue whale of the ...

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 ...

weigh as much as an African elephant. But these are just the averages; the biggest blue whales on record are even more extreme. The heaviest blue whale ever recorded was a victim of whaling ...

A vast blue whale skeleton now hangs in Hintze Hall ... Hintze Hall in 1895, looking south The next star of Hintze Hall was an African elephant specimen (nicknamed George) that arrived in 1907. Hintze ...