“The blue whale is the largest and loudest animal on Earth.” The blue whale is the largest animal on Earth and likely the largest animal ever to have lived. While this ocean mammoth is dubbed “blue,” ...

Blue whales are the largest animals known to man, with an average penis length of 8 feet, while the teeny barnacle (inset) can boast a phallus (indicated with arrow) eight times its body length. Alamy ...

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

Monterey Bay Whale Watch spotted their first blue whale of the season on June 20, the organization announced. A video taken that morning shows an aerial view of the massive mammal gliding just beneath ...

Blue whales will migrate up the West Coast this summer, giving San Diegans the chance to see these massive and graceful animals in local waters. Known as the largest animals in the world, blue whales ...

Newborn blue whales weigh 1360 kg — practically the weight of a small car. Thanks to mom's extremely fatty milk, they put on 90 kg every day. Meanwhile, bat pups may be tiny in comparison, but each ...

For the first time ever, marine biologists have recorded the heart rate of a blue whale in the wild—the results of which even surprised the scientists. New research published Monday in Proceedings of ...

A rarely seen blue whale has been spotted off the California coast, placing the gargantuan creature thousands of miles away from where they are normally found during Christmas. The blue whale was ...

When the largest animals on Earth grab a snack, their hearts skip a beat — or sometimes 30. That's what a team of marine biologists found after recording a blue whale's heartbeat for the first time ...