Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fin whale. Balaenoptera physalus. Photographed in the Gulf of Maine, North Atlantic Ocean. The ocean covers about 70% of Earth, ...

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 ...

Blue whales making an unusual winter appearance. Humpacks sticking around for months, a pair lunging out of the water in sync with one another in a video making a virtual splash. And thousands of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just a blue whale's tongue weighs as much as an adult elephant. But what caused blue whales to grow to such an extraordinary size?

Despite protections, blue whales remain endangered, primarily because of the risk of collisions with ships. MBARI's Blue ...

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