Alexis C. Madrigal - The Atlantic: On the ceiling of the American Museum of Natural History hangs a model of the largest animal on Earth, the blue whale.
The model is a replica, one might say, of a female blue whale that was found in 1925. And it is huge—94 feet long—although at just 21,000 pounds of fiberglass and polyurethane, it is an order of magnitude lighter than a flesh-and-blood blue whale.
No comments:
Post a Comment