Weighing up to 380,000 pounds and stretching some 100 feet long, the blue whale — the largest creature to have ever lived on Earth — might at first seem difficult for human eyes and ears to miss. But a previously unknown population of the leviathans has long been lurking in the Indian Ocean, leaving scientists none the wiser, new research suggests….
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Antarctica’s blue whales return to South Georgia a century after they were nearly wiped out
The critically-endangered blue whale has returned to the waters near the remote island of South Georgia near Antarctica, almost 100 years after they were nearly made extinct. Source: https://www.livescience.com/antarctica-blue-whales-return-south-georgia.html
Mysterious evolution of wonky whale skulls
How we worked out when whales first evolved asymmetrical skulls. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/whale-asymmetrical-skull-evolution…
Why are whales big, but not bigger?
How did whales that feed on tiny prey evolve into the largest creatures on Earth? And why don’t they get even bigger? Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/why-are-whales-big…