"Blue" Whales- How Do We REALLY Know What Color They Are?

[For those of you who aren't actually in or around my immediate family, you probably won't find this post funny. However, you may find it informative.]

So there seems to be this highly important discussion going on amongst my family regarding the size of an average Blue Whale, the largest animal (by weight and volume) on Earth. And that is not even the largest animal currently on Earth- Ol' Bluey is the largest animal ever on Earth. For real.

You might be fooled by this past paragraph. First of all, you might think that my family is very smart for discussing things of this sort. You'd be sorely mistaken. Secondly, you might begin to think that the Blue Whale is larger than it actually is. We all remember the old diagram with a whale on top of a school bus or two or three and think, "Well, I suppose a Blue Whale is probably around...oh...say...a mile and a half long." On this, you'd only be half right. Little Ben has said that "This Blue Whale thing has gotten out of control" because people (namely me and my dad) tend to overestimate the length of these creatures.

Knowing that most of my millions of daily readers are probably highly educated, elitist liberals, I challenge y'all to a quiz. Just how big is the biggest animal ever to swim the Earth?

At scales this large, the metric system and [whatever we call the measuring system in the US] both fail to accurately portray a feasible number, so we will resort to measuring in elephants. So what do you think? Is a Blue Whale two elephants long? Three? Five? Nine? Fifteen? Thirty Seven? A hundred and fifty? CLICK BELOW TO FIND OUT!!!!




- Lunn