The largest blue whale ever recorded weighed over 199 tons. Even average-sized blue whales are massive, weighing around 350,000 pounds. That’s about the same as 30 adult male African elephants.

Whale sharks are the largest species of shark. Their gentle manner and massive size make them the gentle giants of the ocean. However, one especially large whale shark has been spotted off the ...

While blue whales only eat krill, humpback whales eat krill and small schooling fish such as anchovy. If the prey species are more abundant and more densely concentrated, whales can forage more ...

This species of whales gain their name appropriately for the reason that they are simply a gorgeous blue colour. Besides their amazing colour, their size is what is mostly impressive. The subspecies ...

There’s a lighthouse in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and it’s not guiding ships—it’s guiding hungry people to one of the most ...

This guidance on key terms within the Conservation Management Plan for the Blue Whale has been produced by the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment (DAWE) and the National Offshore ...

That’s the Marblehead Lighthouse in a nutshell – a gleaming white sentinel on Lake Erie’s shore that somehow remains Ohio’s best maritime treasure hiding in plain sight. Standing tall since 1821, this ...

A road trip on the Pacific Coast Highway from San Francisco to Los Angeles will allow to you see some amazing Californian ...

Whale likely entangled in fishing nets and died a few days before body was washed ashore The carcass of a 35-foot blue whale has been discovered in Balochistan’s Gwater Bay. X/WWF-Pakistan A 35 ...

He headed NOAA’s large whale research program for the northeastern U.S. from 2011 to 2019, then led the New England Aquarium’s right whale research program through 2022.

Blue whales are the largest animals ever known to exist, reaching lengths up to 33 meters and weighing as much as 190 tonnes. The last blue whale sighting off Pakistan’s coast was recorded near ...

Blue whales, the largest animals on Earth, are extraordinary creatures with many fascinating characteristics worth discovering.