Science gets rare look at the world's biggest heart, belonging to a blue whale

By Catherine Armitage
Updated September 8 2015 - 10:08am, first published August 27 2015 - 2:09pm
A team from the Royal Ontario Museum works to extract the whale's heart Photo: Big Blue Live, BBC/PBS
A team from the Royal Ontario Museum works to extract the whale's heart Photo: Big Blue Live, BBC/PBS
Jacqueline Miller holding the whale's aorta Photo: Big Blue Live, BBC/PBS
Jacqueline Miller holding the whale's aorta Photo: Big Blue Live, BBC/PBS
A blue whale heart has been examined by scientists in a new documentary series. Photo: Big Blue Live, BBC/PBS
A blue whale heart has been examined by scientists in a new documentary series. Photo: Big Blue Live, BBC/PBS
A blue whale's heart has been examined by scientists in a new documentary series. Photo: Big Blue Live, BBC/PBS
A blue whale's heart has been examined by scientists in a new documentary series. Photo: Big Blue Live, BBC/PBS

The blue whale is thought to be the world's largest ever creature - bigger than T-Rex and even than Brachiosaurus. So the stories around it are legend, from Jonah of the Bible being swallowed to Herman Melville's Moby Dick.

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