Blue whales don’t just hold the title for the biggest animal on the planet today. The truth is that they’re […] ...

1820 Renowned SA Painter Thomas Baines is born in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, England. 1895 In Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last ...

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The waters of the West Coast are falling silent. Somewhere deep in the Pacific, off the sunset-lit cliffs of Big Sur and the fog-wrapped bluffs of Mendocino, the largest animal ever known to live on ...

Changing ocean conditions making whale prey scarce are causing the mammals to stop singing, a recent study has found. Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Cascadia Research ...

The largest museum of its kind in the Middle East opens today with an awe-inspiring dinosaur wing, a massive blue whale skeleton within arm's reach, and a stunning exploration of the region’s natural ...