The world's largest creature is the Blue Whale; the scientific name is Balaenoptera musculus. The blue whale is known to be the largest animal ever. It weighs over 441,000 pounds. The total length of a blue whale is 108.27 feet, which is about 33 meters.
The blue whale is a marine mammal belonging to the baleen whale. The heart of the whale is about the size of a car, and it can be detected a mile away; there, their tongue also weighs as much as an elephant.
The population of the blue whales is known to have decreased as a result of them been hunted in the early 1900s. There are around 2,000 blue whales around California, and the overall population is around 10,000 to 25,000 left in the world.
They are carnivorous in nature; they consume about 4 tons of krill a day. The group name for blue whales Pod, and their life span is around 80 to 90 years.