How Big Do Blue Whales Actually Get?

Even the size of Blue Whales gets exaggerated.

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Books
Wild Blue: A Natural History of the World's Largest Animal by Dan Bortolotti

General Blue Whale Info:

Ichthyosaur:

Ichthyotitan:

Pygmy Blue Whale Is the same as North Indian Blue Whale:

Sizing:

Estimating the Body weight of Large Whales:

Longest Blue Whale according to Guiness:

Guiness Blue Whale:

Live Science:

Details on the 98ft Blue Whale:

Cpt Quentin R Walsh:

Paper on 98ft Blue Whale:

Book that references the 98ft measurement:

Limits to body size:

Blue Whale Evolution:

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**Fin whales are second longest but not the 2nd Largest, other whales like the North pacific right whale are heavier and therefore bigger***

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[Sharktoz]

You're literally the first channel I've seen to talk sense about blue sizes. People often forget that animals as big as blue whales (or other huge marine life) have to feed such a large size. The ocean is huge, but it doesn't have infinite resources. At a certain, being to big can cost you. So glad you brought up the point about the biggest individuals of any species are usually outliers, and don't represent the norm. Loved this pal, great work. And thanks for the shot out!!

[anthonyduffy]

They have a whale skeleton in my local museum and its huge, and i was speaking to one of the guys there said it would have been about 40ft long. So anything twice that size is almost unimaginable.

[politonno]

You know the creature is colossal when their smallest "pigmy" variant is more than 20 meters

[mulletpapi]

I found this dude‘s channel last week and I think I’ve already binged every single video on his channel

[Clau_Cas]

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[ssokolow]

13:52 I'm reminded of Betteridge's law of headlines in these situations. "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It's embarrassing how consistently true that is.

[frankG]

I saw a blue whale basking on the surface, while standing high on a cliff on California's I-1. I yelled, it shocked me so much. It was so so massive. It was bigger than I could have possibly imagined.

[lialovesyah]

I love this videos so much. You do so much research and relay it in such an interesting way. Thanks for another great video!

[Waulangmakerboo]

2am and this is the Perfect video before going to sleep

[ximaginecaringx]

yall already know this is gonna be a banger video

[KurNorock]

Take physics models of animals with a big pinch of salt. The physics models of African bush elephants said that they couldn't run faster than 15mph right up until somebody clocked one running over 18mph in a zoo and they've been seen close to 20mph in the wild. Now the physics models say that elephants couldn't possibly reach 21mph. I'm curious how long that lasts...

[darrencole]

I was on a cruise ship and a blue whale came under the boat. It was bigger than our huge ship.

[ArchelausH]

On people changing the measurement of something to make it a round figure:

One of the early surveys of Mount Everest found that it was 29, 000 feet. The surveyors decided not to publish this as they thought the round figure looked too much like a guess/estimate. To get round this credibility problem they added a further 2 feet to give a height of 29, 002 which they felt was much more believable, and published that.

[Egalitare]

One of the first books I recall reading multiple times was Bally the Blue Whale by Boris Arnov, published in 1966. I was 7 at the time and sea mammals have fascinated me ever since 😊

[Djibbuh]

I just came back from the gym and saw this video in my recommend 😎

[GeorgePetrovich-jd]

I think that as recently as 200 years ago, these whales might have reached 110 feet. Large specimens were hunted out of the breeding pool, and the oceans are being "vacuumed" clean by fishing fleets, so food supply is a lot less now. As an aside, 150 years ago, there were pine trees in S. Ontario measuring 6 feet in diameter at the base. Now, a "giant" is 2 feet. Revising everything "downwards" might make us feel better about our depleted planet, and lessen our feelings of guilt.

[CowboyMaster]

Yesss! More How Big videos! Keep it up man!

[MourningCoffeeMusic]

All these different numbers are confusing.
We really need to start using the metric system as a global society.

[artawhirler]

Excellent video on a fascinating topic! Thanks!