Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Read on to discover the 12-inch-thick throat muscles and a 90-second gulp that power its baleen-filter feeding. The biggest whale ...

As if soaring above the brilliant blue ocean isn’t spectacular enough, the New England Aquarium’s aerial survey team recently ...

Blue whales, the largest animals on Earth, have been spotted not far off the coast of Massachusetts.

Blue whale calves enter the world already the size of a bus, yet they still face danger. A hungry killer whale sees a slow, inexperienced target guarded by a single adult. However, orcas cannot reach ...

At least 30 blue whales have been spotted in the waters of Loreto Bay National Park this season ...

Scientists with the New England Aquarium have spotted two endangered blue whales about 15 miles off the coast of southern New England, marking what they believe is the first time ...

Q. You wrote that blue whales are the largest mammals. What are the largest and smallest animals of other groups? What ecological problems do animals confront by being extremely big or extremely small ...