#11: A Whale of a Tale

I don’t know about you, but sometimes, I have a hard time wrapping my head around the scale of things. I know that a billion is more than a million, but I don’t know if I could explain exactly how much bigger. I know that the Burj Khalifa is tall, but if I had to draw a picture of how big it is compared to my house, I know I would be totally wrong.

So when I hear that the blue whale is the largest living animal and in the running for the largest animal to have ever existed on earth, I know I don’t genuinely have a sense of how big it is. So this fact totally blew my mind: its tongue alone is as heavy as the biggest land animal. Blue whales are definitely so much bigger than I understand.