One of the most unique about whales is that they're the largest animals to ever exist on Earth — even bigger than the largest dinosaurs to have ever roamed the planet. That's right: The biggest whale ...

That would not take the heavyweight title by itself. The biggest blue whale ever recorded weighed 190 tonnes, according to Guinness World Records. But the researchers estimated the ancient whale ...

Blue whales are the largest animals ever ... The oldest blue whale on record was estimated to be 110 years old. Like all marine mammals, blue whales give birth to live young.

From mammoth African elephants to giant whales, let's take a look at the 8 largest mammals that inhabit our planet.

The largest blue whale ever recorded measured a staggering 33 metres in length. Some think that the whale shark's cartilaginous skeleton may prevent it from reaching larger, blue whale-like ...

As a result, modern whales are the largest they’ve ever been in history. 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.

The largest blue whales recorded during the era of commercial exploitation were at this scale. "What we like to say is that Perucetus is in the same ball park as the blue whale," he told BBC News.

the Perucetus colossus whale. Previously, the largest known animal in the world was the blue whale, weighing up to 180 tons and reaching 100 feet long. The blue whale's tongue alone is as heavy as an ...

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 ...

Since its arrival at the Museum in the 1880s, the blue whale skeleton has been part of an ever-expanding scientific collection. The whale is the largest specimen in the Museum's collection of more ...