The blue whale is the largest animal ever known to have lived on Earth. Blue whales are largest of all baleen whales and are found worldwide. They have a long slender body with a proportionally ...

Despite being the biggest whale, the blue whale does not have the biggest ... whale can reach just under nine feet long at its maximum size. Baby dwarf sperm whales are on average three to four ...

The largest blue whale ever recorded measured a staggering 33 metres in length ... For comparison, the Museum's giant squid Archie measures in at 8.62 metres long. Despite their enormous size, whale ...

Only some of the very biggest blue whale specimens might have rivalled ... "The fossils were actually discovered 13 years ago, but their size and shape meant it took three years just to get ...

The newly slimmed-down size estimate puts the Perucetus ... to a weight less than half that of the largest known blue whales. The fossil skeleton of the whale, known as Perucetus colossus, was ...

Take the biggest of the bunch the blue whale. It weighs more than a Boeing 757. Has a belly button the size of a plate. And its network of blood vessels, if you laid them out in a line ...

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 ...