Blue whales are the largest animals on the planet. They are powerful swimmers that migrate long distances to feed and breed, ...

The natural world is rife with opportunities to contextualize our own existence. Perhaps no instance of this is more jarring though than being dwarfed by the sheer size of some of our fellow earthly ...

“The blue whale is the largest and loudest animal on Earth.” The blue whale is the largest animal on Earth and likely the largest animal ever to have lived. While this ocean mammoth is dubbed “blue,” ...

There was cheering and shouting far off shore on July 4 when a local whale watch boat enjoyed a rare sighting of the largest animal on the planet — a blue whale. Excitement ran through the boat, the ...

Rachael is a writer and digital content producer at IFLScience with a Zoology degree from the University of Southampton, UK, and a nose for novelty animal stories. Katy is Managing Editor at ...

Most people size up animals by how tall they stand or how long they stretch, but weight tells a different story. Measuring by mass alone reveals which creatures carry the most bulk.

Regarded as some of the largest animals in our oceans, which creature is bigger: the giant squid vs blue whale? While blue ...

When people think of the biggest animals, their minds often go to those that lived 100 million to 200 million years ago, known by scientists as the Mesozoic Era period. According to Britannica, the ...

When a whale appears where nobody expects it, the ocean itself feels like it’s offering a gift. That’s what happened off Cape ...

Whale watchers touring the coast of Cape May got a rare glimpse of a blue whale — the world's largest animal — during a wildlife research trip earlier this month. The sighting happened Sept. 12 on a ...

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

Blue whales, the Earth's largest animal, have gone silent, a development that has scientists worried about the future of the ...