Discover the blue whale, the biggest animal to ever live. Learn its size, diet, and surprising facts about this ocean giant.

A blue whale calf with its mother near the coast of island Pico (Azores)© tane-mahuta/iStock / Getty Images Plus via Getty Images "The blue whale is the largest and loudest animal on Earth." The blue ...

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Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

The Numbers First The only intact blue whale heart ever preserved and studied in detail came from a specimen that washed ...

The largest living animal, the blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) which averages about 27 meters in length, has slowly recovered from whaling only to face the rising challenges of global warming, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. When we think about the scope of our world’s diversity, ...

A new study argues that Perucetus, an ancient whale species, was certainly big, but not as big as today’s blue whales. By Carl Zimmer Last August, a team of paleontologists announced that they had ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you're an ocean lover and find everything that lives in it fascinating and awe-inspiring, this video that ABC News shared on ...