Think of the largest elephant you can. Now multiply that by 30. That’s the size of a blue whale, the largest animal to exist, ...
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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just a blue whale's tongue weighs as much as an adult elephant. But what caused blue whales to grow to such an extraordinary size?