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| A life-size model of a blue whale. Pic - Orma.org (Video below) |
Staff correspondent, August 26, 2015, NewsCrunch
Blue whale, the largest animal to have ever inhabited earth still has many anatomical secrets locked in it.
In a possible first, The Royal Ontario Museum has acquired the car-sized heart of a Blue Whale and begun to study it. It took four people to extricate it from a washed up carcass.
It is five feet long, weighs 180 kg and pumps up 220 litres of blood every beat. It is so big a small person can swim through its aorta.