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English: Size comparison of blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) (bottom) and the Mayflower (top), an English ship that transported the Pilgrims to the New World in 1620. This diagram assumes a length of 26 metres for the blue whale and 26 metres for the Mayflower.
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The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is a marine mammal and a baleen whale.Reaching a maximum confirmed length of 29.9 m (98 ft) and weighing up to 199 t (196 long tons; 219 short tons), it is the largest animal known ever to have existed.
An underwater photographer who got up close and personal with a massive blue whale says the experience left him feeling awestruck — and incredibly small. Stunning photo shows diver's close ...
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
If the upper size estimates for Bruhathkayosaurus are accurate, it would even rival the size of the largest recorded blue whale. Mature blue whales can reach 30 m (98 ft) in length, and the record-holder blue whale was recorded at 173 tonnes (190 short tons), [23] with estimates of up to 199 tonnes (220 short tons). [24]
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By comparison, the blue whale reaches 29.9 meters (98 ft) in length. [12] Limaysaurus was used by Carpenter in 2018 to estimate the size of Maraapunisaurus as a rebbachisaurid. When Carpenter redescribed the taxon as a rebbachisaurid instead of a diplodocid in 2018, he made new, very different, size estimates.