To support a creature of this magnitude, a blue whale’s heart weighs about 400 pounds, 640 times the weight of a human heart, according to National Geographic. They are also the loudest animals ...

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 ...

A massive gang of over 60 orcas was seen brutalizing an endangered pygmy blue whale off the coast of Western Australia by a ...

Interestingly, female blue whales are usually larger than the males. Even a blue whale's heart it big. Treehugger shared, "It's the largest heart in the animal kingdom, weighing about 400 pounds.

just ask researchers at Oregon State University. A group of scientists at the university recently captured rare footage of blue whales feeding in the Southern Ocean off New Zealand via drone.

Asked to choose, from all this fleet, the vessel to carry me on a month-long cruise in pursuit of blue whales, I would not have hesitated. As Flip Nicklin and I passed our gear up the trawler's ...