A pygmy blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda, swims in the Banda Sea, Indonesia. This huge cetacean reaches up to 24 meters in length and makes up to about half of all blue whales alive.© ...
Blue whales eat about 10 million particles of microplastics a day, humpbacks about 200,000, and fin whales about 3 million. The difference may be due to the peculiarities of the animals' diets, said ...
Whales are mighty. Blue whales, for example, aren’t only the largest animal on Earth, but as far as we know, they’re the largest animal that’s ever existed on Earth—and that includes dinosaurs.