Blue whale sighted in Red Sea for 1st time off Egypt's coast
A blue whale, the largest animal on Earth, was sighted in the Red Sea for the first time although no one was able to capture its photos, Egypt's environment ministry has said. The "endangered" mammal, which can grow up to 30 metres in length, was brought "to the brink of extinction" in the 1960s by intensive hunting, according to IUCN.