A Biologist Explains Why The Blue Whale Is Still Growing — And How It Reached 200 Tons

A biologist explains the surprising evolutionary math behind how the blue whale became the largest animal that has ever lived ...
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How whales became the largest animals ever

Whales are the largest living animals that have ever existed on this Earth. A blue whale growing to a whopping 110 feet in length, outweighing even the dinosaurs. But curiously their story begins from ...
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A Biologist Ranks The 5 Biggest Animals To Have Ever Roamed The Earth (Hint: One Exists To This Day, The Rest Are Extinct)

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. When we think about the scope of our world’s diversity, ...
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It sounds absurd, but the heart of a blue whale is so big a human could swim through its arteries

It’s hard to picture a creature so immense that a person could stand inside one of its arteries, yet that’s the reality of the blue whale—the largest animal ever to live on Earth. A detail like that ...