The Blue Whale Challenge is a social media challenge that encourages participants to engage in self-harm and dangerous activities each day, leading up to the final day when they are encouraged to ...

Move over, blue whale. You've been demoted. Scientists have discovered what they say could be the heaviest animal that ever lived on Earth: a gigantic ancient whale that may have been two to three ...

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Blue whale season is underway in San Diego, drawing locals and tourists alike to one tour company who had a hand in NBC's newest nature documentary.

Even hydrophones haven’t been picking up the sounds from blue whales.” Compared to the reported 729 blue whale observations from 2015, this marks a dramatic decline. Liyanage said NARA, the government ...

King of the Blue Ocean–or KOBO–is one of the museum’s signature attractions. The blue whale was accidentally struck by a vessel in 1998 and brought to the museum two years later.