The loudest human yell was 129 decibels. The loudest dog bark was 113 decibels. At 70 decibels, ... A blue whale's call is 20 Hz and a sperm whale’s click is about 10,000 Hz.

MIRISSA, Sri Lanka — Sri Lankan waters are considered a haven for the largest creatures ever to have lived, the blue whale, a rare place for a resident, year-round population to thrive. In 2021 ...

Containing 16 different whale species, the biggest of the baleen whales — the blue whale — measures in at a staggering 31 meters (102 feet) and 190 tons (210 short tons).

By comparison, a humpback whale might consume up to 200,000 microplastic pieces per day — 50 times less than blue whales did — during its peak feeding time, the researchers estimated.

King of the Blue Ocean–or KOBO–is one of the museum’s signature attractions. The blue whale was accidentally struck by a vessel in 1998 and brought to the museum two years later.

The human heart, in comparison, is sluggish, beating only 60 to 100 times a minute. ... The EKG data shows that a single beat of the blue whale’s heart takes about 1.8 seconds, ...

We have seen a blue whale give birth twice – once in 1911 and once in 1946, but out of all the blue whale sightings around the world, only a little over 3% of them include a mother and her calf.

The largest living animal, the blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) which averages about 27 meters in length, has slowly recovered from whaling only to face the rising challenges of global warming ...