Last year, the Blue Planet’s heaviest ever animal lost its ... that the ancient animal — though only half as long as a blue whale — could be double its weight. It was no light-duty claim ...

One of the most unique about whales is that they're the largest animals to ever exist on Earth — even bigger than the largest ...

Blue whales are not just the largest animals alive today, but the largest animals to ever live on Earth. They can stretch ...

The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet. It consumes enormous quantities of tiny, shrimp-like animals known as ...

The sperm whale is the largest toothed predator on the planet and the master of the open ocean. The aim of the Blue Planet II team was to capture an intimate family portrait of sperm whales ...

Learn more about how baleen whales split into two groups — fight or flight — and how these groups determine how loud they ...

To study lunge-feeding behaviour blue whales are tagged with cameras. Rorquals are some of the largest whales on the planet including: blue, fin, and humpback whales. Lunge filter feeding involves ...

A blue whale photographed in September 2010.NOAA The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet. It consumes enormous quantities of tiny ...

Join Museum scientists as they reflect on becoming part of this specimen's giant story. Since its arrival at the Museum in the 1880s, the blue whale skeleton has been part of an ever-expanding ...

Researchers found that whale feces contain iron and non-toxic copper, essential nutrients for ocean ecosystems. The study ...