6/7/2017
Bigger mouths allow blue whales to take in more food—like krill—per gulp of seawater. Efficient eating is part of the reason it became evolutionarily ...
6/6/2017
Whales began as land-dwelling, hoofed mammals some 50 million years ago. Over several millions of years, they developed fins and became marine ...
"Blue whales, for example, feed on millions of krill that gather in big patches, in many cases patches that are larger than the whales themselves.
6/1/2017
And a new study says baleen whales — the group of gargantuan filter-feeders that includes bowheads, fin whales, and the biggest of all, blue whales ...
Whales are big. Really big. The big mama of them all, the blue whale, can reach a whopping 172,000kg - which makes it the largest animal to have ...
5/28/2017
Weighing around 200,000 kg (200 metric tons) and stretching about 30 metres (100 ft) in length, the blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus), is known to ...
A Humpback whale jumps in the surface of the Pacific Ocean at the Uramba Bahia Malaga natural park in Colombia, on July 16, 2013. (Photo credit: ...
5/25/2017
A blue whale raises its tail above the water surface off the coast of Long Beach, California, in 2016. A blue whale can weigh as much as 24 elephants ...
Forget giant dinosaurs ruling the world – the biggest creature that has ever lived is the blue whale and it's getting bigger. The majestic kings of the ...
Scientists have traced the evolution of whale sizes back 30 million years and discovered how the giant mammals got so big. In a study published in ...
Blue whales are among the biggest creatures on the planet today. But a few million years ago, they were practically petite. Scientists think they know ...
Blue whales, the biggest animals on Earth, were not that large long ago. In fact, they were relatively small animals for most of their evolutionary ...
Scientists think they've figured out why the biggest whales—those of the baleen variety, including blue whales—got so big. As they explain in a study ...
The sheer size of the blue whale is breathtaking, an animal known as the largest ever to exist. That's right, in the entire history of the planet, no other ...
Whales are big. Really big. Enormously big. Tremendously big. Fin whales can be 63 tonnes (63,000kg). Bowhead whales tip the scales at 90 tonnes.
Blue whales are the largest animals ever known to have lived on Earth. These marine giants can grow up to 100 feet long and weigh around 200 tons.
A humpback whale is seen breaching outside of Sydney Heads at the beginning of whale watching season during a Manly Whale Watching tour on ...
Blue whales are the most massive animals to exist in the history of animals. Dreadnoughtus and those other thundering, 60-ton dinosaurs?
Why are whales so big? An "explosion" of food in the ocean, created by a change in the environment, meant that suddenly being bigger was better, ...
5/24/2017
The blue whale may be the largest animal to have ever existed, but new research has found that the species only claimed the title relatively recently.
A new study has some surprising answers to questions about when and how the blue whale — the most massive creature ever to exist on Earth — got ...
WASHINGTON: Whales - the largest animals on the planet - evolved to gigantic sizes only about 2-3 million years ago as a result of changes in the ...
A blue whale, the largest creature to ever roam Earth, surfaces on the Pacific Ocean in Long Beach, Calif. Only a few million years ago the baleen ...
You have the privilege of sharing the planet with the largest animal that ever lived on Earth. The great blue whale, which can be found in every ocean ...
And it is over that shorter time period that the whales in our oceans today got to be so large. The blue whale is the largest animal that has ever lived.
Whales are curious creatures: Why did the animals get so big? When did they balloon to such massive proportions? And as Elizabeth Pennisi reports ...
Blue whales are the largest animals ever known to exist. Bigger than dinosaurs, bigger than mastodons, a blue whale can reach up to almost 100 feet ...
“But our analyses show that this idea doesn't hold up – the only way that you can explain baleen whales becoming the giants they are today is if ...
A blue whale,the largest vertebrate animal ever in the history of life, engulfs krill off the coast of California. Photo By Silverback Films/BBC/via ...
Unfortunately, reality is always a little disappointing: The remains belonged to a baleen whale. But there is certainly something rather mythical and ...
Well, Jordan Collver, an illustator and science communicator in the United Kingdom, felt the world needed a visual aid. According to a Slate magazine ...
Scientists think they have answered a whale of a mystery: How the ocean creatures got so huge so quickly. A few million years ago, the largest whales ...
Whales are huge. Even the smallest of them, the pygmy right whale, can reach 20 feet, while the blue whale, the largest of the baleen whales, can ...
Blue whales can grow to 30m, the length of a Boeing 737 airliner, but such size is a relatively recent feature in their evolutionary history. Thirty million ...
Blue whales are the biggest animals that have ever existed on Earth but they only recently got that way. This is the extraordinary finding from a new ...
It might not seem like it, but we live in a world full of giants. Blue whales are the largest animal ever to move across the planet, with the biggest ...
Fin whales can be 140,000 pounds. Bowhead whales tip the scales at 200,000 pounds. And the big mama of them all, the blue whale, can reach a ...
Jordan Collver, an illustrator and science communicator in the U.K., was thinking about Darwin—specifically, about our inability to conceptualize the ...
Baleen whales (Mysticeti) are vacuums of the sea. The blue whale, which is one of 12 species of baleen whales, is the largest animal in the world ...
The blue whale grows up to 110 feet in length. Its heart is the size of a small car. Its major artery is big enough that you could wedge a small child into it ...
5/23/2017
Now researchers say they might have solved the mystery of why baleen whales – a group that includes these blue beasts, the largest animals on the ...
The blue whale, which uses baleen to filter its prey from ocean water and can reach lengths of over 100 feet, is the largest vertebrate animal that has ...
How and why whales got so big has remained a mystery until now, in part because of the challenges of interpreting an incomplete fossil record.
Weighing in at 200,000 kilograms and stretching the length of a basketball court, the blue whale is the biggest animal that's ever lived. Now, scientists ...
Nothing defines whales more than their size: The 100-foot blue whale is the largest creature that has ever existed, and many other species are 50-feet ...
WASHINGTON — Scientists think they have answered a whale of a mystery: How the ocean creatures got so huge so quickly. A few million years ago, ...
The early ancestors of 100-foot-long blue whales were dolphin-sized, according to new research that explains how, when, and why these and other ...
For the whales, it made sense to make the most of the seasonal abundant food by bingeing. Filter-feeding and large body size both made for more ...
Listen, I'm not going to sit here and tell you that baleen whales are big. You know that. In fact, I bet you know that at 300,000 pounds, the blue whale is ...
Blue whales and other filter-feeding leviathans became giants when climate change introduced them to binge-eating, research has shown. At more ...
The largest living vertebrate mammal on Earth today, the blue whale, can grow to over 100 feet in length, and other baleen whales grow up to massive ...
Millions of children have gazed up at the massive blue whale model in the Natural History Museum in London and wondered at the sheer size of the ...
A blue whale, the largest vertebrate animal ever in the history of life, engulfs krill off the coast of California. Photograph authorized under National ...
Blue whales are the largest animals ever to have lived on Earth – but they only evolved their enormous size in the past few million years. Exactly how ...
Whales are the largest animals on the planet, but they haven't always been giants. Fossil records show that ancient whales were much smaller than ...
A few million years ago, the largest whales, averaged maybe 15 feet long. That's big, but you could still hold a fossil skull in two hands.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists think they have answered a whale of a mystery: How the ocean creatures got so huge so quickly. A few million years ...
The biggest animals ever known to have existed owe their size to the sudden spread of ice sheets, researchers believe. Blue whales can grow to more ...