The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is a marine mammal and the largest animal that has ever lived. Blue whales are actually more gray than blue, but they appear blue underwater. Blue whales ...

A blue whale calf grows at a rate of 200 pounds per day! Although its commercial importance has dwindled, it is the largest animal that ever lived. Some specimens are 100 feet long and weigh 150 tons.

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 ...

A 40-million-year-old fossilised whale ... the largest known blue whales. The fossil skeleton of the whale, known as Perucetus colossus, was previously thought to be the heaviest animal ever ...

While all these other giant creatures are extinct, one still exists: the blue whale. It is the largest animal to have ever lived.

While the whale shark is certainly a big animal, it is considerably smaller than the blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus, which is the biggest animal in the world. The largest blue whale ever recorded ...

Discover the largest animal ever to have lived in high resolution. Rotate and zoom in to the model below to learn more about the specimen.

Although its commercial importance has dwindled, it is the largest animal that ever lived. Some specimens are 100 feet long and weigh 150 tons. A blue whale calf grows at a rate of 200 pounds per day!

Getty Images In a single year during the 1930s, whalers killed about 30,000 blue whales, according to figures from the International Whaling Commission "This is the largest animal to ever exist on ...

Scientists have worked out how some of the largest ... ever lived on the planet," he told BBC News. "They are amongst the biggest animals, they're smart and they're highly social." Humpback whale ...

"They tell us vastly more about how the animal ... largest carnivorous mammal that has ever lived on land, may have been a mesonychid.) In the 1950s immunologists had discovered characteristics in ...