A blue whale’s heart weighs hundreds of pounds, an organ so massive that popular science comparisons liken it to a small car.

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 ...

For decades, a single whale has been calling out at a frequency no known species uses. Scientists still can’t find it.

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For nearly forty years, a strange signal has been drifting through the North Pacific, making scientists scratch their heads.

It was something they never expected to see: the largest mammal in the world swimming off the coast of New Jersey. Last weekend, about 50 passengers and crew aboard the Cape May Whale Watch and ...