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 ...

Have you ever thought about which animals are the biggest in the world? From the magnificent blue whale to the majestic ...

Only some of the very biggest blue whale specimens might have rivalled ... "The fossils were actually discovered 13 years ago, but their size and shape meant it took three years just to get ...

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 ...

While this ocean mammoth is dubbed “blue,” its color is more a reflection of the water it swims in — its skin is actually ...

Hunted nearly to extinction during 20th century whaling, the Antarctic blue whale, the world's largest animal, went from a ...