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If blue whales above water are only putatively blue, then below the surface they go indisputably turquoise. Balaenoptera musculus is a pale whale, and when seen through the blue filter of the ocean, ...
The ocean is home to animals so enormous that some can outweigh entire groups of elephants, while others stretch farther than a city block. But deciding which one is the largest sea creature is not as ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just a blue whale's tongue weighs as much as an adult elephant. But what caused blue whales to grow to such an extraordinary size?