Have you ever imagined how magnificent it would be if you find yourself paddling above the water and you witness a glorious blue whale swimming right beside you? It would be a spectacular sight, but ...

A blue whale mother and calf are swimming together in the Gulf of California in Baja, Mexico, one of the warm-water places blue whales spend their winter months. Only two blue whale births have ever ...

A pygmy blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda, swims in the Banda Sea, Indonesia. This huge cetacean reaches up to 24 meters in length and makes up to about half of all blue whales alive.© ...

Whale watchers touring the coast of Cape May got a rare glimpse of a blue whale — the world's largest animal — during a wildlife research trip earlier this month. The sighting happened Sept. 12 on a ...

Whale watching charter owners said they couldn’t remember a time over the last decade when blue whales, the earth’s largest mammals, showed up this late off Southern California. In recent years, their ...