Blue whales can live up to 90 years, with some known to reach 110 years old, and their main predator is the orca (killer whale). Blue whales are the largest animals in the world. Despite their ...

The blue whale is renowned as the Earth’s largest animal, taking that title today by quite some distance. That holds true even stretching back through time as these enormous marine mammals are even ...

Blue whales - the largest animals on Earth - are making their home in a part of the Indian Ocean where they were wiped out by whaling decades ago. Researchers and filmmakers in the Seychelles ...

We actually found that these animals are here quite a bit more often than we had realized,” says Will Oestreich, a researcher ...

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 ...

Size Fin whales are the second largest mammal in ... sounds to build a picture of their surroundings. Spotting predators like blue sharks, tuna and dolphins in the deep oceans around Wales is ...

Asked to choose, from all this fleet, the vessel to carry me on a month-long cruise in pursuit of blue whales, I would not have hesitated. As Flip Nicklin and I passed our gear up the trawler's ...

Blue whales are the largest animals ever to have lived ... Killer whales, the largest dolphin species, also have teeth, but their diet is different to other odontocetes. Killer whales are apex ...

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 ...

Despite their size, the lives of these important predators remain shrouded in mystery ... as surface-dwelling migratory animals, such as blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus).

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.

Plus, their large numbers helped ward off rival predators, including pilot whales ... Antarctic seals are an entirely different prey from blue whales. A fleeing seal may take refuge on ice floes ...