"The fossils were actually discovered 13 years ago, but their size and shape ... The largest blue whales recorded during the era of commercial exploitation were at this scale.

The skull of a vaquita (Phocoena sinus), the world’s smallest cetacean, is pretty manageable, as it’s around the size of a melon. But the skull of a blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is more on the ...

Furthermore, the scale of commercial hunting in ... species have changed our understanding of rorqual size, with the humpback ...

A 40-million-year-old fossilised whale previously thought to ... the skeletal and non-skeletal mass would scale at the same rate with increasing body size. But Dr Motani and Dr Pyenson argue ...

That's practically the weight of a small car. But it's the typical size of a newborn blue whale. The biggest baby in the animal kingdom. When they nurse, calves put on 90 kg. Every. Single.