Until now, the blue whale was widely considered to be the heaviest animal of all time, weighing up to 200 tons and sometimes measuring more than 100 feet in length. But a new discovery from ...

A newly discovered whale that lived nearly 40 million years ago could be the heaviest animal to have ever lived, based on a partial skeleton found in Peru, scientists said on Wednesday.

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

Despite recent efforts by marine wildlife experts to reroute the animal to deeper waters, the minke whale was found dead on ...

Animals vary greatly in size, with species like the Blue Whale and Ostrich standing out as some of the largest creatures on ...

“One big difference is that whales are often traveling thousands of miles across ocean basins–great whales undertake the longest migration of any mammal,” says Roman. “So they connect areas close to ...