Mammalia · Artiodactyla
Blue Whale
Balaenoptera musculus
The largest animal ever known to have lived on Earth, reaching lengths of up to 30 meters and body masses exceeding 190 metric tons.
- Realm
- Marine
- Conservation status
- ENEndangered
Data provenance
This range is an occurrence-derived learning extent, not an official assessment range map. See the methodology page for the complete pipeline. GBIF.org occurrence density (GBIF Maps API v2) · 1° global raster; derived from GBIF per-cell occurrence density, vagrant-trimmed by a cumulative record-count threshold, morphologically closed, small-and-distant components pruned, clipped to a Natural Earth 1:110m realm mask.
Method and version Evidence snapshot
A sample of openly-licensed occurrence records retained after quality filtering. 1037 licence-filtered records across 196 1° cells, retrieved 2026-08-24.
Inspect on GBIFRetained datasets (22)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- Happywhale - Blue whale in Arctic Ocean (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- Happywhale - Blue whale in North Atlantic Ocean (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- Happywhale - Blue whale in North Pacific Ocean (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- Happywhale - Blue whale in South Atlantic Ocean (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- Happywhale - Blue whale in South Pacific Ocean (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- Happywhale - Blue whale in Southern Ocean (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- iNaturalist research-grade observations (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Individual sighting (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Observación de cetaceos en el mar Pácifico de Guate (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- VACAPES Offshore Study Area Observations (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Wildlife Rehab Database (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)