![]() Read this blog post and watch the video below to see how scientists worked with good-natured local “people of the sea” to recover the whale. Nine big blue whales washed up the idyllic shores of Trout River, Newfoundland, last year.How did the Royal Ontario Museum get a hold of the blue whale’s heart?.A blue whale’s heart weighs about the same as a (filled-up) oil drum. ![]() A blue whale’s heart is almost as big as a Harley-Davidson.A blue whale’s heart is almost as big as a small piano.The blue whale’s heart needs a better metaphor! What else weighs about 400 pounds? So a whale’s heart is not the size of a car.Luckily, we have a nice, strong rib cage protecting this vital organ. If you’re an adult, your heart is about the size of two fists. If you’re a kid, your heart is about the size of your fist. Your own heart is much more delicate: It makes up less than half a percent of your body weight. The biologist in the video said it took 4 people to remove the heart from the whale’s chest cavity.A blue whale’s heart weighs about 640 times as much as a human heart.Now divide that by 10, the weight of a human heart.16 ounces in a pound, so 400 pounds is 6400 ounces.Do the math to compare its size to a whale heart-don’t worry, it isn’t hard: The heart makes up about 5% of an elephant’s weight.A blue whale’s heart weighs about 14 times as much as an elephant’s heart.Their round-shaped hearts weigh about 30 pounds. African elephants are the largest terrestrial creatures on Earth.The 400-pound heart of a 40,000-pound animal is still pretty big! (Even though the heart is only about 1% of the whale’s body weight, it’s still the biggest on the planet.) How big is the heart of the world’s largest terrestrial (land-loving) creature? How big is your own heart? How does it compare to the size of a blue whale’s heart?.It looks like most golf carts weigh at least 500-600 pounds. One researcher said the blue whale heart was actually the size of a small golf cart-but that’s not really true, either.A blue whale’s heart is about 5 feet long, 4 feet wide, and 5 feet tall. A Volkswagen Beetle measures about 14 feet long, 6 feet wide, and 5 feet tall. One urban legend says that its heart is as big as a Volkswagen Beetle! For the first time, scientists have tested this claim. The blue whale is the largest animal ever to have lived.
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