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.

1820 Renowned SA Painter Thomas Baines is born in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, England. 1895 In Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last ...

Whale songs are far removed from the singing that humans are used to. Unlike our musical sounds, those produced by whales are a complex range of vocalisations that include groans, clicks and whistles ...

Researchers completed genomic research on carcasses of the largest animals that have ever lived to understand North Atlantic whale populations. By Darren Incorvaia Darren Incorvaia previously wrote ...

New research suggests Viking-age hunters took down the biggest animal on Earth Andrew Chapman, Hakai In the fall of 1385, according to a 17th-century Icelandic text, a man named Ólafur went fishing ...

Newly sequenced genomes of blue whales in the Atlantic Ocean contain "unexpectedly high" levels of fin whale DNA, hinting that the two species have been interbreeding much more than previously ...

It was something they never expected to see: the largest mammal in the world swimming off the coast of New Jersey. Last weekend, about 50 passengers and crew aboard the Cape May Whale Watch and ...

Blue whales sing less when they are starving and sing more when food is plentiful, a recent study revealed. Researchers listened to whales off California for six years and found that their singing ...