Whales travel through the ocean, lunging, leaping, and playing, with grace and swiftness that belie their huge size. The ...

Gliding gracefully through the marine waters, the blue whale is considered to be the largest creature to have ever existed. This behemoth can reach up to 110 feet long and weigh over 160 tons.

Blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) are the world's largest animal, capable of reaching an astonishing 110 feet (34 meters) long, around three times longer than a school bus.. The number of these ...

Whales may be known as gentle giants, but they still have a looming presence as the world’s loudest and largest animals. The Antarctic blue whale can weigh up to 400,000 pounds and stretches to ...

The whaling industry nearly drove blue whales to extinction, and although their numbers continue to teeter across the globe, many changes have been made in the Pacific waters that have proven to ...

The blue whale’s giant corpse was lying washed up on a rocky beach on the Pacific coast of Patagonia, at the southern tip of South America. The huge mammal was 46 feet (14 meters) long, and its ...

The blue whale skeleton has been on display since 2000. CREDIT: New Bedford Whaling Museum. The carcass was eventually towed to shore and dissected by scientists for research.

There are estimated to be 10,000 to 25,000 blue whales in the world. Those numbers are considered a fraction of their past population before rampant whaling decimated their numbers in the 19th and ...

However, the last minke whaling company has closed and now only fin whales – the second-largest whale species after the blue whales, which are not fished – are hunted, mainly for export to ...

The blue whale is the largest animal on Earth and likely the largest animal ever to have lived. ... As whaling technology improved, hunters were able to pursue blue whales in the open oceans.

Blue whales, the largest animals on Earth, have been sighted along the San Diego coastline, signaling the beginning of the blue whale watching season.

KARACHI: A 35-foot-long blue whale was found dead in the Arabian sea, in a remote area called Gwater Bay, between Pakistan and Iran, on Monday. According to officials representing the World Wide Fund ...