An orca attack on a pygmy blue whale is witnessed by researchers and tourists onboard a whale-watching vessel off the WA coast. It is one of just a handful of documented killer whale attacks on a ...

Five families of orcas joined forces to hunt down and feed on a blue whale, the largest creature on the planet, in what was an extremely rare sighting off Australia. More than 60 orcas worked ...

Tourists and researchers witnessed a pod of orcas hunt and kill an endangered pygmy blue whale. © Robert Pittman, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Every summer ...

But at 92 feet in length and 34 feet in height, it no more than does justice to the dimensions of the huge creature it represents-the blue whale. The blue is the largest animal that has ever lived.

Happily, Dionne has come up with a solution. “Why don’t we use the internationally agreed upon standard of measurement – the blue whale?” The blue whale genome is 2.4 billion bases in length.