The biggest whale species on Earth is a monster! There are plenty of large creatures within the Cetacea order (which contains dolphins, porpoises, and whales), but one surpasses them all. Meet the ...

Blue whales, the largest animals on Earth, have suddenly gone silent, a development that has scientists and experts worried about the future of the animal, and the ocean. A recent study published by ...

Changing ocean conditions making whale prey scarce are causing the mammals to stop singing, a recent study has found. Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Cascadia Research ...

In the waters of Argentina's southern Chubut Province, conservationists captured rare evidence of a blue whale during a photo ...

Whale watching charter owners said they couldn’t remember a time over the last decade when blue whales, the earth’s largest mammals, showed up this late off Southern California. In recent years, their ...

The Noyo Center for Marine Science in Fort Bragg broke ground this week on a 2,240-square-foot facility called the Whale ...

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 ...