The study included 90 blue whales, the biggest animals ever to live. Size estimates vary, but the marine mammals can grow about 100 feet long and weigh more than 100 tons, according to the ...

Scientists from Australia and Switzerland have found that the shrinking size of whales was a key indicator that the species was about to collapse during commercial whaling. Sperm whales went from ...

Fifty million years ago, whales were four-footed, tailed land mammals about the size of wolves. Over the next 12 million years, these terrestrial whales evolved into fully aquatic animals ...

Hundreds of students got an up-close look inside the Whalemobile, a 40-foot whale replica, providing them with a visual representation of a whale's size and scale on Monday, March 25th, 2024.

The whales’ size is made all the more remarkable because they eat only krill. The beached whale carcass was found in such good condition that its organs were able to be preserved.