Blue whales and killer whales (orcas) are some of the largest creatures in the ocean and some of the most famous. These intelligent animals are truly amazing and share some distinct similarities.

Newport Landing/Davey’s Locker whale watching tours have seen incredible numbers of giant blue whales off the coast of Newport Beach. The cruises head out a couple times a day, and there have ...

The Museum's vast blue whale skeleton is more than just a specimen - it's a 4.5-tonne parcel of social history. The animal has been dead for more than 120 years, but the legend of the day it arrived ...

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 ...

This blue whale skull is one of the largest in any collection on earth. Chris Gunn By the turn of the 20th century, the United States National Museum—now the Smithsonian’s Arts and Industries ...

Join Museum scientists as they reflect on becoming part of this specimen's giant story. Since its arrival at the Museum in the 1880s, the blue whale skeleton has been part of an ever-expanding ...

Wildlife visible in the vicinity include blue, gray, humpback, fin, minke and orca (aka killer) whales, as well as multiple species of dolphins, porpoises and seabirds. While some sea creatures ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. A blue whale’s heart can beat as few as two times a minute. The discovery comes from data collected during researchers’ first few attempts to ...

RATE OF GROWTH IN the paper by Mackintosh and Wheeler, “Southern Blue and Fin Whales” (“Discovery Reports”, I, 1929), a graph is given showing the growth in length of the Blue whale from ...

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.