Think of the largest elephant you can. Now multiply that by 30. That’s the size of a blue whale, the largest animal to exist, ...

Whale biologist Carrie Newell spotted four blue whales feeding about 3 to 4 miles offshore from Depoe Bay, Oregon on June 27 — an exceptionally rare event in the state’s coastal waters. Newell, ...

A blue whale calf with its mother near the coast of island Pico (Azores)© tane-mahuta/iStock / Getty Images Plus via Getty Images "The blue whale is the largest and loudest animal on Earth." The blue ...

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 ...

Hunted nearly to extinction during 20th century whaling, the Antarctic blue whale, the world's largest animal, went from a population size of roughly 200,000 to little more than 300. The most recent ...

Endangered pygmy blue whales dive to depths in the ocean to forage and feed along their migratory path off the Western Australian coast, new research led by the Australian Institute of Marine Science ...

The Blue Whale of Catoosa has become an icon of Route 66 with thousands of tourists stopping to take a picture with the structure every year, but its origins are rooted in family and community. When ...

A diver's jaw-dropping face-to-face moment with a blue whale near the Maldives stunned viewers online. The video, shared to a popular Reddit forum, captured widespread attention, gaining 35,000 ...

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At least 30 blue whales have been spotted in the waters of Loreto Bay National Park this season Michael Nied has been a digital news editor with PEOPLE since 2025. He has previously been published by ...