In all of human history, only two blue whale births have been recorded, with both having taken place decades ago. It is unclear why blue whale births and even calves themselves are so rarely seen ...

Feedback is delighted to hear from a reader who proposes an ingenious new unit of data – but we have some quibbles with the ...

The episode, witnessed off the Australian coast, offers a rare glimpse into the brutal efficiency of the ocean’s top predator.

Blue whales are not only the largest animal on earth today but the largest known animal ever to have lived on earth. The ...

Ilya Pogiblov, 28, was sentenced to nine years by a court in Novosibirsk for creating a so-called Blue Whale social media group. He had a 'pathological interest in the death of others', said the ...

Five families of orcas joined forces to hunt down and feed on a blue whale, the largest creature on the planet, in what was an extremely rare sighting off Australia. More than 60 orcas worked ...

Consider for a moment the blue whale. Weighing up to 200 tons ... Abegglen is working on translational strategies for applying elephant p53 to human health. In a poster presentation at the American ...

This blue whale skull is one of the largest in any collection on earth. Chris Gunn By the turn of the 20th century, the United States National Museum—now the Smithsonian’s Arts and Industries ...

The human mind struggles with the very large and ... the internationally agreed upon standard of measurement – the blue whale?” The blue whale genome is 2.4 billion bases in length.