but the biggest known to have ever existed. The average length of a blue whale is about 90 feet, almost as long as a basketball court, and they weigh an average of 300,000 pounds. That's about 150 ...

Could an enormous blue whale make a mistake and swallow a dolphin? Learn why it's not possible for blue whales to eat anything that large.

As a result, modern whales are the largest they’ve ever been in history. Take the biggest of the bunch the blue whale. It weighs more than a Boeing 757. Has a belly button the size of a plate.

The modern blue whale has long been considered the largest and heaviest animal ever, beating out all the giant dinosaurs of the distant past. But Perucetus colossus – the colossal whale from ...

For the past three decades 8,000 pounds of fiberglass has been "sounding" from the ceiling in the Life in the Sea Hall of the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). It is the most stupendous ...

The largest blue whale ever recorded measured a staggering 33 metres in length. Some think that the whale shark’s cartilaginous skeleton may prevent it from reaching larger, blue whale-like ...

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 ...

Five families of orcas joined forces to hunt down and feed on a blue whale, the largest creature on the planet, in what was an extremely rare sighting off Australia. More than 60 orcas worked ...