The blue whale is the largest animal on Earth and likely the largest animal ever to have lived. While this ocean mammoth is dubbed “blue,” its color is more a reflection of the water it swims ...

The blue whale is "a light bluish gray overall, mottled with gray or grayish white," as one field guide describes it, and the back is often, indeed, this advertised color, but just as often ...

A Blue Whale’s Heart Beat Taken for the First Time Ever Stuns Scientists, It Can Survive on Just Two Beats per Minute Seven years ago researchers followed a California whale to find out his heart rate ...

The Museum's vast blue whale skeleton is more than just a specimen - it's a 4.5-tonne parcel of social history. The animal has been dead for more than 120 years, but the legend of the day it arrived ...

Most baleen whales (suborder Mysticeti), such as blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) and fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus), communicate in the 15 to 25 hertz range—low, rumbling sounds that can ...

Surprise: Blue Whales Are Mostly 'Left-Handed' Surprise: Blue Whales Are Mostly 'Left-Handed' Watch Mysterious Blue Whale Behavior Likely Filmed for First Time Mysterious Blue Whale Behavior ...

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 ...