The blue whale is famously the largest animal in the world, but this simple fact doesn't do these creatures justice. They aren't just the biggest animals in the world today, but the biggest known ...

Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the ...

The blue whale is the largest animal ever known to have lived on Earth. Blue whales are largest of all baleen whales and are found worldwide. They have a long slender body with a proportionally ...

in the case of the blue whale, to have ever existed) on Earth, with some species weighing up to 200 tons—and while many find the mammals awe-inspiring and majestic, that hefty body composition ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on ... an explanation for the longstanding mystery of why blue whale calves are rarely sighted, an advance that could ...