The blue whale is the largest animal known to have ever lived, and nearly every organ inside it stretches the limits of what biology can build. Chief among them is the heart, an engine roughly the ...

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?

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 ...

A moratorium on commercial whaling was introduced, and widely implemented, in the 1980s in a bid to stop the decline in whale populations – but did it work?

More than 40 years after the end of commercial whaling, new research reveals a recent increase in sightings of the world's two largest whale species in the southeastern Atlantic. The findings, ...

Chris Peterein, exhibit production manager at the St. Louis Science Center, dusts the platform underneath a reproduction of an 80-foot-long blue whale skeleton on Tuesday, May 19, 2026. The skeleton ...

A blue whale carries the largest heart of any animal known to have lived, an organ so massive that its main outgoing blood vessel is wide enough to fit a human head. Studying that organ has forced ...

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