Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the biggest animal that has ever existed. Whales can be found in every ocean, ...

Blue whales are not only the largest animal on earth today but the largest known animal ever to have lived on earth. The largest blue whale ever recorded weighed over 199 tons. Even average-sized blue ...

The blue whale, which uses baleen to filter its prey from ocean water and can reach lengths of over 100 feet, is the largest vertebrate animal that has ever lived. On the list of the planet’s most ...

Discovered by National Geographic's Manu San Félix, this 500-year-old coral the size of half a football field is changing how scientists view ocean resilience.

Nature enthusiasts from across the country on Thursday hopped on board a full-day boating adventure in the hopes of getting an up-close encounter with the largest animal on Earth -- the blue whale.

A local nonprofit said the 52-ton mammal is “far too big, awkward and heavy to remove.” A town official later said it could ...

A dead sperm whale weighing more than 100,000 pounds washed up on a Nantucket beach, but a local nonprofit says it can't be ...