The blue whale is the largest animal ever known to have lived on Earth. Blue whales are largest of all baleen whales and are found worldwide. They have a long slender body with a proportionally ...

"We looked at data on blue, fin, sei and sperm whales and found significant declines in body size, with sperm whales taken in the 1980s four metres shorter on average than those in 1905," said Dr ...

It's an ancient, long-extinct whale that would have tipped the scales at close to 200 tonnes. Only some of the very biggest blue whale specimens ... but their size and shape meant it took three ...

For example, the loss of one gene reduced the risk of lung inflammation from ... our understanding of rorqual size, with the ...

a fifth-year graduate student at the Duke University Marine Lab. “Some proportion of their mass is now plastic.” A blue microplastic fiber turned up on this glass fiber filter from the lung tissue of ...