Channel: Facts in Motion

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Description: The Blue Whale is the largest animal of our time and the largest animal that ever lived. But how large are they exactly? This animation will show you. Sources: researchgate.net/publication/240590693_Body_weight_of_some_species_of_large_whales bbc.com/earth/story/20170216-how-an-empty-sea-helped-the-blue-whale-grow-so-enormous researchgate.net/publication/317134796_Independent_evolution_of_baleen_whale_gigantism_linked_to_Plio-Pleistocene_ocean_dynamics royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.140434 serc.carleton.edu/integrate/teaching_materials/coastlines/student_materials/901 bbc.com/news/science-environment-40032372 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2017.0546 bbcearth.com/blog/?article=the-anatomy-of-a-whale bbc.com/earth/story/20150820-see-the-worlds-biggest-heart-blue-whales-is-first-to-be-preserved nationalgeographic.com/animals researchgate.net/publication/240590693_Body_weight_of_some_species_of_large_whales sararegistry.gc.ca/virtual_sara/files/cosewic/sr_blue_whale_e.pdf whalefacts.org/blue-whale-penis whalefacts.org/whale-milk news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_9265000/9265623.stm livescience.com/10332-whales-swallow-million-calories-single-mouthful.html nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2009/11/24/the-origin-of-big newscientist.com/article/dn19841-blue-whale-feeding-methods-are-ultra-efficient advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/8/e1600883.full theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/why-whales-got-so-big/557213 www-das.uwyo.edu/~geerts/cwx/notes/chap11/phyto.html jeb.biologists.org/content/205/12/1747.abstract researchgate.net/publication/267237931_Filter_Feeding iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/whales-have-elastic-nerves pnas.org/content/115/25/6506 ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3443106 Thanks for watching. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0