To pump blood around their massive bodies, blue whales also have a massive heart that is 1.5 meters wide by 1.5 meters high (5 feet wide and 5 feet high), weighing around 1360 kilograms (~3000 pounds) ...

Blue whales, which measure up to 100 feet (30 meters) long and can weigh over 150 tons, ... Researchers have little idea what limits their enormous size. What is the pace of life at this scale, ...

The blue whale has long been considered the largest animal to have ever existed, even dwarfing the biggest known dinosaurs. But now a new species threatens to steal the crown, and upends what we ...

Feedback's proposal that the genome of the blue whale could be used to communicate the scale of large datasets is knocked back by a reader with a radical alternative suggestion 7 May 2025 ...

During the 1936–37 antarctic whaling season, out of a total of 32,821 whales slaughtered, 14,183 were Blue whales. Nature - Life-size Model of a Blue Whale Skip to main content ...

His large-scale works include a 35-foot-long whale mural for what is now the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, as well as a 100-foot-long mural of Moby Dick, the giant sperm whale that torments ...

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.