Whale heart
It’s easy to accept that whales are big, even if being confronted with a photo of them compared to a fishing trawler does bring it home a little bit more. It’s not really until we see something like this photo that we are really brought up short by the sheer scale of these magnificent creatures. They really are indescribably huge!
This is a preserved Blue Whale heart. It weighs in at 440 pounds and is about the size of a family car. It’s difficult to even comprehend the size of the animal who would own this organ or the noise of the blood rushing through it when it was in use. The natural world is really an incredible place.