Now you can finally see what the world’s largest heart looks like. Blue whales, which are the largest animals in the world, can grow up to a 100 feet (30.5 metres) in length. Because of their rarity, scientists were never able to study the anatomy of the creature’s heart in detail.
However in May last year, researchers got the opportunity to closely examine the heart, after a dead blue whale, nicknamed ‘Lollipop’, was washed ashore in Newfoundland, Canada. According to BBC reports, experts from the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) cut up the 76.5 feet (23.3 metre) animal.
It took four people to lift the blue whale’s 180 kg heart, which measured 5 feet in length. The blue whale’s heart could pump 58 gallons of blood through its body.
“We had to get the chest cavity opened to expose the heart and then get in there and free the heart up from all of the surrounding tissues, getting in with what was left of the lungs and blood, pretty much up to my waist,” said Jacqueline Miller, a mammalogy technician from the ROM, as reported by the BBC.
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