From mammoth African elephants to giant whales, let's take a look at the 8 largest mammals that inhabit our planet.

These estimates put the Perucetus as being as heavy as or heavier than the biggest blue whales ever known – even though it’s considerably shorter at just 17 metres long, compared to blue ...

While the whale shark is certainly a big animal, it is considerably smaller than the blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus, which is the biggest animal in the world. The largest blue whale ever recorded ...

the Perucetus colossus whale. Previously, the largest known animal in the world was the blue whale, weighing up to 180 tons and reaching 100 feet long. The blue whale's tongue alone is as heavy as an ...

Surprise: Blue Whales Are Mostly 'Left-Handed' Surprise ... Here's the Surprising Reason Why Watch Watch the World’s Biggest Animal Lunge for its Dinner Watch the World’s Biggest Animal ...

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 might have rivalled its heft, researchers say.

As Earth’s largest animals, blue whales are mighty big eaters, gulping tonnes of food each day. They also now are ingesting huge amounts of plastic, according to scientists, due to the alarming ...

Join Museum scientists as they reflect on becoming part of this specimen's giant story. Since its arrival at the Museum in the 1880s, the blue whale skeleton has been part of an ever-expanding ...