Blue Whale vs. Jumbo Jet: Which Giant Actually Wins on Size?

The biggest whale species on Earth is a monster! There are plenty of large creatures within the Cetacea order (which contains ...
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Blue whales have gone silent. Why that has scientists worried about Earth’s biggest animals ... and the ocean

Blue whales — the largest animals on Earth — aren't singing as much anymore, and that's got scientists concerned. A study published in PLOS analyzing six years’ worth of acoustic data collected from ...
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Blue whales are going eerily silent—and scientists say it’s a warning sign

A blue whale swims near the coast of Sri Lanka. Studies from California to New Zealand have shown that certain whale species, such as blue whales, stop singing when heat waves disrupt their food ...
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Blue whales' food supply under threat in the Antarctic

A new publication from WWF, the conservation organization, warns that the main food source for Antarctic blue whales, krill, is under threat due to melting polar ice, linked to climate change. Bonn, ...
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License To Krill: There’s A New Threat To Whales And Its Just as Bad as the Last One

The Southern Ocean encircling Antarctica is the world’s largest feeding ground for baleen whales — species like humpbacks that filter tiny organisms from seawater for food. In the 20th century, ...
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A Biologist Explains Why The Blue Whale Is Still Growing — And How It Reached 200 Tons

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Fossil records make one evolutionary pattern especially ...
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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,” ...