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Blue whale

Order : Cetacea
Suborder : Mysticeti
Family : Balaenopteridae
Species : Balaenoptera musculus

The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) was hunted almost to extinction until hunting was outlawed in 1966, and today humans still disturb these beautiful underwater giants. With the increase of the noise from ships and military sonar, blue whales have a hard time communicating with each other. Read about it on National Geographic. Furthermore, they are threatened by illegal whaling, pollution and fishing nets. The world population is estimated between 3,000 and 4,000 (source). They are considered an endangered species. Yesterday i saw an episode of Genographic Project on National Geographic, about the evolution on whales. According to the Genographic project, all cetaceans descended from a wolf-like creature. But a little search on google shows a lot of different views, including the hippopotamus. Did you know adult blue whales are about the same size as a boeing 737 ?

Boeing 737 photographed by Benny Bartels.

Blue Whale skeleton outside the Long Marine Laboratory of the University of California, Santa Cruz

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify the image of the skeleton of the blue whale shown above and the image of the boeing 737 under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

Facts about the blue whale

(Balaenoptera musculus) By Colleen Jennings The blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus, is the largest living animal with lengths ranging from 24-30 meters.

Blue whales are severely depleted in all oceans of the world.

Long and streamlined, the Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is the largest animal The Blue Whale is a plankton feeder and its appetite is enormous

The Blue Whale is found throughout every ocean in the world, from the equator to the polar regions in both the Southern and Northern Hemispheres.

Blue whales are the largest animals to have ever lived on Earth with some individuals reaching lengths of nearly 100 feet (30. (Full text)

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Binomial name Balaenoptera musculus The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is a mammal which belongs to the baleen whales suborder. (Full text)

The blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus, is likely the largest animal ever to have lived on Earth. (Full text)

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Factoid: The blue whale is the largest animal ever to inhabit the Earth. (Full text)

Blue whales are closely related to fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus), which are also huge, but the body of a blue whale is mottled and lighter in color and its dorsal fin is not as tall and pronounced as that of the fin whale. (Full text)

Blue whales are found throughout the worlds oceans. (Full text)

See also:     Gygis portfolio    Aerial Blue Whale Photos    Cetaceans The blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus, is the largest animal ever to have lived on Earth. (Full text)

Blue whales are gulpers, filter feeders that alternatively swim then gulp a mouthful of plankton or fish. (Full text)

Blue WhaleBalaenoptera musculus Also Called: Sulphur Bottom (Archaic)The blue whale is the largest creature on the planet and is larger than the largest of the dinosaurs. (Full text)