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

The employees of the company Naturaliste Charters Whale Watching could hardly believe their eyes when they saw what this orca ...

As a last act, he and his mates painted their initials inside the whale's condo-size mouth. In 1963, the same year that blue whales gained some measure of international protection, Natural History ...

The food mix-up began while a Blue Kingdom Whale and Wildlife Tours ... then used a lunging feeding technique, where the whale opens its mouth wide and takes in small fish and water.

The blue whale is a filter-feeder. Its throat has an expandable, pleated structure to engulf a volume of water and prey that is greater than the animal's own body weight. The water it takes in at the ...

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