And they did. Today, a blue whale is 10 THOUSAND times more massive than the Pakicetus was. But this transformation wasn’t as gradual as you might think. In fact, over the next 37 million years ...

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 ...

Ralph Pace (USA) emphasises scale by contrasting a blue whale with a fulmar flying overhead. Ralph encountered this blue whale - one of three - as it surfaced to take a breath during its southerly ...

But it's the typical size of a newborn blue whale. The biggest baby in the animal ... That might not sound like much, but we're actually pretty big. After all, tiger cubs weigh only 1/120th ...

"What we like to say is that Perucetus is in the same ball park as the blue whale," he told BBC News. "But there's no reason to think that our individual was particularly big or small; it was ...

Johannes Peters, an expert from Kiel University’s Institute for Security Policy, told Spiegel magazine: “Underwater drones like the Blue Whale will allow the German navy to take a big step ...