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The average length of sexually mature female blue whales is 22.0 meters (72.1 ft) for Eastern North Pacific blue whales, 24 meters (79 ft) for central and western North Pacific blue whales, 21–24 meters (68–78 ft) for North Atlantic blue whales, 25.4–26.3 meters (83.4–86.3 ft) for Antarctic blue whales, 23.5 meters (77.1 ft) for Chilean ...
They represent average values and should only be considered as approximations. ... Whale (Delphinapterus leucas) 408 [2] Whale (Physeter catodon) 480 590 ...
Researchers examining southern right whales found that the median life span for the species was 73.4 years, and that 10 percent of individuals survived past 131.8 years. ... tends to live longer ...
Whales are fully aquatic, open-ocean animals: they can feed, mate, give birth, suckle and raise their young at sea. Whales range in size from the 2.6 metres (8.5 ft) and 135 kilograms (298 lb) dwarf sperm whale to the 29.9 metres (98 ft) and 190 tonnes (210 short tons) blue whale, which is the
The blue whale is the largest animal on Earth and likely the largest animal ever to have lived. While this ocean mammoth is dubbed “blue,” its color is more a reflection of the water it swims ...
The maximum lifespan of the freshwater pearl mussel (Margaritifera margaritifera) may be 210–250 years. [78] [79] [80] Some confirmed sources estimate bowhead whales to have lived at least 211 years of age, making them the oldest mammals. [81] Rougheye rockfish can reach an age of 205 years. [82]
Mammals range in size from the 30–40 millimetres (1.2–1.6 in) bumblebee bat to the 30 metres (98 ft) blue whale—possibly the largest animal to have ever lived. Maximum lifespan varies from two years for the shrew to 211 years for the bowhead whale.
These include such animals as the bowhead whale—with its 200-year lifespan ... average human life span would be more than 1,000 years,” he tells Scientific American. “Maximum life span ...