Discover fascinating facts about the blue whale, the largest animal on Earth, and learn about a recent study that challenges its title.
The blue whale is considered the largest animal of all time. It holds this title both in terms of length and weight.
The study conducted by paleontologists at UC Davis and the Smithsonian Institution says that Perucetus colossus weighs about the same as today’s whales and is smaller than the biggest blue whales ever measured.in Peru, used certain guesses to ascertain that Perucetus might weigh around 180 metric tons, with a possible range from 85 to 340 metric tons.
“It would have been a job for the whale to stay at the surface, or even to leave the sea bottom–it would have required continuous swimming against the gravity to do anything in the water,” Motani
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