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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.
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.
Size of Paraceratherium (dark grey) compared to a human and other rhinos (though one study suggests Palaeoloxodon namadicus may have been a larger land mammal). The blue whale is the largest mammal of all time, with the longest known specimen being 33 m (108.3 ft) long and the heaviest weighted specimen being 190 tonnes.
“The blue whale is the largest and loudest animal on Earth.” The blue whale is the largest animal on Earth and likely the largest animal ever to have lived. While this ocean mammoth is dubbed ...
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A blue whale has been measured as 33 m (108 ft) long; this drawing compares its length to that of a human diver and a dolphin. The decametre (SI symbol: dam) is a unit of length in the metric system equal to 10 meters (10 1 m). To help compare different orders of magnitude, this section lists lengths between 10 and 100 meters.
The heart of a blue whale with a person standing next to it. The heart of baleen whales functions similarly to other mammals, with the major difference being the size. The heart can reach 454 kilograms (1,000 lb), but is still proportional to the whale's size.
Rorquals (/ ˈ r ɔːr k w əl z /) are the largest group of baleen whales, comprising the family Balaenopteridae, which contains nine extant species in two genera.They include the largest known animal that has ever lived, the blue whale, which can reach 180 tonnes (200 short tons), and the fin whale, which reaches 120 tonnes (130 short tons); even the smallest of the group, the northern minke ...