To pump blood around their massive bodies, blue whales also have a massive heart that is 1.5 meters wide by 1.5 meters high (5 feet wide and 5 feet high), weighing around 1360 kilograms (~3000 pounds) ...

Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the biggest animal that has ever existed. Whales can be found in every ocean ...

Orcas found to kill blue whales, the largest animals on Earth, for first time. The discovery may actually signal good news for both species, experts say.

W hen it's time to eat, humpback whales head toward the ends of the earth. Their mission: feast until they are fat and happy. They must build up their energy reserves, packing on nearly a ton of ...

Blue Whales are the largest animal ever to have lived, but just reading that doesn’t quite convey their colossal proportions. They are bigger than the biggest dinosaur and weigh as much as 200 cars.

Even the biggest animals need help in our changing oceans. As many as 80 endangered whales — among them blue whales, fin whales, and some populations of humpbacks — wash up on California shores each ...

Blue whales, the largest animals on Earth, have been sighted along the San Diego coastline, signaling the beginning of the blue whale watching season.

Baleen whales include the blue whale, the largest animal ever known. Baleen whales are among the biggest creatures on Earth – science is revealing new secrets about their size Home ...

Data collection focused on blue, fin, humpback and sperm whales. These are whales which are most commonly involved in accidents worldwide. Approximately 435,000 whale data points were combined with ...

To see a whale is to see nature in its full glory, “they are the biggest animals on planet Earth, a blue whale. They weigh 30 elephants. Their tongue alone is the size of an elephant, and their ...