The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is a marine mammal belonging to the baleen whales (Mysticeti). At 30 metres (98 ft) in length and 170 tonnes (190 short tons) or more in weight, it is the largest known animal ever to have existed. Long and slender, the blue whale’s body can be various shades of […]
An elephant weighs less than a blue whale’s tongueThe title lyric of the old Billie Holiday standard asks the question “Am I Blue”? if you’re a Blue whale, the largest creature ever to inhabit the earth, the answer is…sometimes. Blue whales only appear true blue under water, grayish on the surface. “Huh?,”” you ask, “what’s […]
Blue whale calves are born weighing 3 tons, gain 8 lbs an hour and grow 1.5 inches per day! and their father’s nuts are the size of a midsize car.. “Muscular The blue whale was named by the great Swedish taxonomist Carl Linnaeus in 1758. He called it Balaenoptera musculus which means “winged whale, little […]