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

Off California, a North Pacific right whale, one of fewer than 50 in U.S. waters, lingered near a research boat for 20 minutes, giving scientists a close look at this rare species. Anglers in Honduras ...

Scientists have pinpointed the oldest known evidence of humans making tools from whale bone. The bones, fashioned into narrow ...

The most gigantic animal that has ever lived is the amazing blue whale. Watch this fascinating video revealing all kinds of facts about this massive creature, including just how large blue whales can ...

Gliding gracefully through the marine waters, the blue whale is considered to be the largest creature to have ever existed.

Warming waters influence plankton abundance, a blue whale food source. The experts said that whales could be leaving in ...

Blue whales and killer whales (orcas) are some of the largest creatures in the ocean and some of the most famous. These intelligent animals are truly amazing and share some distinct similarities.

“In terms of weight it could eat a fully grown African elephant every day,” author and biologist Mark Carwardine wrote of Sri Lanka’s blue whales in his On the Trail of the Whale. However, it’s not ...

“In terms of weight it could eat a fully grown African elephant every day,” author and biologist Mark Carwardine wrote of Sri Lanka’s blue whales in his On the Trail of the Whale ...

During this time they eat around 4% of their body weight each ... The migratory patterns of blue whales are much more varied than gray whales and scientists are still searching for many answers ...

Even average-sized blue whales are massive, weighing around 350,000 pounds. That’s about the same as 30 adult male African elephants. Despite their huge size, they eat a diet of tiny shrimp-like ...

Examples of baleen whales include blue whales, fin whales and humpback whales. Toothed whales usually eat larger prey, which can include fish, squid, octopus, seabirds, seals, penguins ...