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Blue whales might be some of the most iconic creatures on the planet, but for all their impressive features, there’s still plenty we don’t know about them. One particularly confounding mystery ...

Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the biggest animal that has ever existed. Whales can be found in every ocean ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Blue whales are currently being spotted along San Diego’s coast, according to local experts, and now is the best time to catch a glimpse of the rare animal. “The ...

Blue whales — the planet’s largest animal — subsist on tiny crustaceans called krill. As populations of this food source recovered from the marine heat wave, detections of blue whale singing soared.

The sperm whale is the largest toothed predator on the planet and the master of the open ocean. The aim of the Blue Planet II team was to capture an intimate family portrait of sperm whales, to ...

The ocean is home to the largest animals of all-time, the great whales, yet these oceanic giants remain some of the most poorly understood organisms on earth. What is life like at this extreme ...

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 ...

Now we can add whale urine to that list, according to a paper published in the journal Nature Communications. “Lots of people think of plants as the lungs of the planet, taking in carbon dioxide, and ...

When whales migrate from their cold feeding grounds to warmer breeding waters, they carry tons of nutrients in their urine.