The giant blue-grey sei whales have made a triumphant return to the waters off Argentina's Patagonian coast, more than a century after relentless hunting drove them to the brink of extinction in ...

Blue whales can eat as much as 6 tons (5.4 metric tons ... using echolocation to track down giant squid, octopuses and other prey in the pitch-black waters. Occasionally, these whales have been found ...

many people think of giant whales, squid or octopuses with infinite tentacles or sharks that would scare the wits out of Martin Brody and Quint, the main characters in Spielberg's first film about ...

Thousands of blue whales roam the oceans and the giant mammals give birth every two to three years. But the births are very stealthy, with calves rarely sighted. Given pregnancy rates as high as 33-50 ...

File photo of a blue whale off the coast of Bandon, Oregon. An analysis from the University of Washington finds that blue and ...

But the true size and shape of this extinct giant probably doesn't resemble ... which is the average size of a blue whale and roughly equal to the height of the White House. Finding out details ...

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To study lunge-feeding behaviour blue whales are tagged with cameras ... a super-expandable throat pouch that accommodates these giant gulps of water and fish or krill. The mouth then closes ...

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 ...

This enormous specimen is the biggest of the 80 million that Museum staff care for, and the giant currently greets visitors to the Museum from the ceiling of Hintze Hall. The blue whale is suspended ...

Thousands of blue whales roam the oceans and the giant mammals give birth every two to three years. But the births are very stealthy, with calves rarely sighted. Given pregnancy rates as high as ...