The size of the files will also vary depending on the compression ... The blue whale genome is 2.4 billion bases in ... which may be even better at communicating the scale of information", ...

Blue whales, which measure up to 100 feet (30 meters) long and can weigh over 150 tons, ... Researchers have little idea what limits their enormous size. What is the pace of life at this scale, ...

His large-scale works include a 35-foot-long whale mural for what is now the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, ... Richard Ellis, artist behind a life-size blue whale, dies at 86.

To pump blood around their massive bodies, blue whales also have a massive heart that is 1.5 meters wide by 1.5 meters high (5 feet wide and 5 feet high), weighing around 1360 kilograms (~3000 pounds) ...

The largest blue whales recorded during the era of commercial exploitation were at this scale. "What we like to say is that Perucetus is in the same ball park as the blue whale," he told BBC News.

The blue whale has long been considered the largest animal to have ever existed, even dwarfing the biggest known dinosaurs. But now a new species threatens to steal the crown, and upends what we ...

A 30 million year-old fossil whale may not be the heaviest animal of all time after all, according to a new analysis by paleontologists at UC Davis and the Smithsonian Institution. The new analysis ...

His large-scale works include a 35-foot-long whale mural for what is now the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, as well as a 100-foot-long mural of Moby Dick, the giant sperm whale that torments ...

The largest blue whales recorded during the era of commercial exploitation were at this scale. "What we like to say is that Perucetus is in the same ball park as the blue whale," he told BBC News.