The Blue Whale The blue whale or balaenoperta musclus is the largest animal to ever have lived on Earth. Whalers have reported this whale to being over 100 feet long and weighing over 150 tons! The blue whale is a mammal, because it has milk, hair, and the embryo develops in the mothers womb. The blue whale is a type of baleen whale. The blue whale eats mostly plankton and crustaceans like krill or copecods. The blue …showed first 75 words of 283 total…

…showed last 75 words of 283 total…of IWC and other animal rights activist these gentle animals would probably be extinct. Some interesting facts about the blue whale is that, their oil was used for perfume, lubrications, soap, and candy. The blue whale is almost extinct in the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean. To stop this from happening to any other species of whale, the United States listed a number of whales that included the blue whale, on endangered species list.