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The blue whale is bigger than any dinosaur science has confirmed, and yet it is not a fossil or a record in a museum — it is a living, breathing, endangered animal that can still be seen from the California coast every summer

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The blue whale is not just the largest animal alive today. By mass, it is almost certainly the largest animal science has ever confirmed, outweighing even the greatest dinosaurs known from the fossil record. That comparison can feel strange because dinosaurs have become the default image of biological scale. Museum halls are built around their bones. Children learn their names as shorthand for eno...