Then there’s the heart of the blue whale, the largest animal ever to have lived. These marine giants can be longer than two school buses, and their hearts — which are roughly the size of a ...

The preserved heart of a blue whale weighs 181 kg Blue whales are the ... at the Royal Ontario Museum to preserve it. ''Its sheer size alone accelerates decomposition, so it's remarkable we ...

To pump blood around their massive bodies, blue whales also have a massive heart that is 1.5 meters wide by 1.5 meters ... blue whales’ are relatively short for their body size at around 3 to 4 meters ...

As these whales increase in size, they use more energy lunging ... For example, a recent study that measured blue whale heart rates demonstrated that heart rates were near their maximum ...

The Antarctic blue whale’s heart is equivalent in size to a compact car, and the amount of noise it makes as it travels through the ocean is louder than a jet engine. While the blue whale is the ...

The largest mammal, the blue whale, has a heart the size of a sofa, and their heart beats have been recorded as low as two per minute. That's the slowest heartbeat of any warm blooded mammal.

According to the World Wildlife Fund, a blue whale’s heart is the size of a Volkswagen Beetle. McMahon wrote that the first time she saw a blue whale decades ago, it was only to see it surface ...