It’s hard to picture a creature so immense that a person could stand inside one of its arteries, yet that’s the reality of the blue whale—the largest animal ever to live on Earth. A detail like that ...

This traveling exhibition features a life-sized blue whale skeleton, a full-scale heart model, hands-on games, and interactive experiences.

Blue whale calves and births have seldom been documented. A new study may help unravel the mystery. Photo from NOAA Fisheries Service Despite being members of the largest species on the planet, young ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Fossil records make one evolutionary pattern especially ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Read on to discover the 12-inch-thick throat muscles and a 90-second gulp that power its baleen-filter feeding. The biggest whale ...

Feedback has been a science journalist for more years than we care to remember, and as a result we have come across our fair share of bizarre units of measurement. The human mind struggles with the ...

Indonesian scientists have attached a satellite tag onto an endangered pygmy blue whales for the first time by drone. The tag ...