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The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society have a neat way of driving home just how massive a blue whale is.

A life size scrolling image.
Mar 20, 2007 4:48 AM
Re: How Big is a Blue Whale?
Doesn't really seem to help me much. What does though is knowing that one single vertebrae of one of these animals is larger than the torso of an adult man.

A slightly smaller whale is the sperm whale, which is the only one I could find a good picture of. This is the size of one vertebrae:
http://www.paleodirect.com/mv21-014.htm
By: tjbassoon
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Re: How Big is a Blue Whale?
Doesn't really seem to help me much.

No? The idea is that what you see is a 1:1 real life sized image of the whale. Though different screen DPI settings will not make it that exact.
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Re: How Big is a Blue Whale?
yeah imagine displaying it on like a cell phone.... vs lets say a 60 inch plasma hooked to the net...... something tells me there would be a small difference
By: pingwen
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