Baleen whales are among the biggest creatures on Earth—science is revealing new secrets about their size

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Sep 11, 2024, 12:33 pm117 pts
People often think of all whales as giants of the sea when in fact they vary in size dramatically, from the 30-meter blue whale to the two-meter dwarf sperm whale. However, almost all of the largest family by size, the baleen whales, are massive—and scientists have only recently understood how they grew so big.

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