But these are just the averages; the biggest blue whales on record are even more extreme. The heaviest blue whale ever recorded was a victim of whaling, caught in Antarctic waters in 1947.

The biggest blue whale ever recorded weighed 190 tonnes ... the desert on the southern coast of Peru. “There is no record of the existence of an animal as large as this, it is the first ...

Five families of orcas joined forces to hunt down and feed on a blue whale, the largest creature ... “This is the biggest predation event on the planet,” Robert Pitman, cetacean ecologist ...

The blue whale is the largest animal ever known to have lived on Earth. Blue whales are largest of all baleen whales and are found worldwide. They have a long slender body with a proportionally ...

That's practically the weight of a small car. But it's the typical size of a newborn blue whale. The biggest baby in the animal kingdom. When they nurse, calves put on 90 kg. Every. Single.