The blue whale holds the distinction of being the largest animal ever known to have existed, surpassing even the largest ...

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 ...

A 40-million-year-old fossilised whale previously thought to be the heaviest animal of all time is now thought to weigh less than a blue whale. The huge, 17-metre-long whale, which was believed to ...

Blue whales - the largest animals on Earth - are making their home in a part of the Indian Ocean where they were wiped out by whaling decades ago. Researchers and filmmakers in the Seychelles ...

Mammals are among the most adaptable animals on the planet. They are found on every continent and in every ocean, and range in size from tiny bumblebee bats to enormous blue whales. One reason for ...

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 ...

Blue whales - the largest animals on Earth - are rarely seen so close to the shore, it said. "The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet yet despite its size it could have easily slipped ...

Stay 500 yards away, about the length of five football fields. This regulation applies to vessels, aircraft, drones and ...

the Perucetus colossus whale. Previously, the largest known animal in the world was the blue whale, weighing up to 180 tons and reaching 100 feet long. The blue whale's tongue alone is as heavy as an ...