A Biologist Explains Why The Blue Whale Is Still Growing — And How It Reached 200 Tons

A biologist explains the surprising evolutionary math behind how the blue whale became the largest animal that has ever lived ...
The New York Times

Blue Whale Genes Reveal Less Inbreeding, More Interbreeding Than Expected

Researchers completed genomic research on carcasses of the largest animals that have ever lived to understand North Atlantic whale populations. By Darren Incorvaia Darren Incorvaia previously wrote ...
AOL

Blue Whale

“The blue whale is the largest and loudest animal on Earth.” The blue whale is the largest animal on Earth and likely the largest animal ever to have lived. While this ocean mammoth is dubbed “blue,” ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Object at Hand

For the past three decades 8,000 pounds of fiberglass has been "sounding" from the ceiling in the Life in the Sea Hall of the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). It is the most stupendous proxy ...
IFLScience

Why Are Blue Whale Calf Sightings So Mysteriously Rare?

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...
Science Daily

Unraveling the mystery of the missing blue whale calves

Only two blue whale births have ever been recorded in human history, both decades ago. This remains an extraordinary mystery given there used to be hundreds of thousands of blue whales before whaling ...
Newsweek

Rare ‘December’ Blue Whale Appears Far from Where It Should Be

A rarely seen blue whale has been spotted off the California coast, placing the gargantuan creature thousands of miles away from where they are normally found during Christmas. The blue whale was ...