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 ...

Blue whales are not only the largest animal on earth today but the largest known animal ever to have lived on earth. The ...

A RARE video captured the brutal moment a pack of 60 killer whales hunted down and devoured the world’s biggest animal in a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Time spent sewn up in a whale wasn’t the only curious historical treatment for rheumatism. Elixirs of dubious origin promised relief; a doctor in Paris declared 20 small needles and a proprietary oil ...

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 ...

A blue whale calf grows at a rate of 200 pounds per day! Although its commercial importance has dwindled, it is the largest animal that ever lived. Some specimens are 100 feet long and weigh 150 tons.

These huge marine mammals are some of the biggest to have ever existed and ... However, some species – such as the blue whale – are lunge feeders and lunge at speed through huge clouds of ...