From mammoth African elephants to giant whales, let's take a look at the 8 largest mammals that inhabit our planet.

That would not take the heavyweight title by itself. The biggest blue whale ever recorded weighed 190 tonnes, according to Guinness World Records. But the researchers estimated the ancient whale ...

The largest blue whale ever recorded measured a staggering 33 metres in length. Some think that the whale shark's cartilaginous skeleton may prevent it from reaching larger, blue whale-like ...

Blue whales are the largest animals ever ... The oldest blue whale on record was estimated to be 110 years old. Like all marine mammals, blue whales give birth to live young.

The largest blue whales recorded during the era of commercial exploitation were at this scale. "What we like to say is that Perucetus is in the same ball park as the blue whale," he told BBC News.

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 ...