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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...