My species is the largest that ever lived, with one of the longest life spans on record – 150 years or more… and you nearly killed us all! That’s right, I’m a giant blue whale, over 100’ long, and if you had a scale that could handle me, I’d weigh about 170 metric tons. Nothing that big that ever lived on land can match this. The giant South American, Middle Cretaceous dinosaur – plant eating Argentinosaurus – is a worthy second place with maximum length of 110’ and weight up to 100 metric tons.

Thank the gods for music! We sing at 18 cycles per second, with a wavelength 100 yards long that can travel 800 miles on a good day. Our notes are unlike yours: it takes me 25 seconds to sing one note and I do that every 70 seconds for about 20 minutes to complete one song. The best description for you people I can think of is that one of my songs sounds like a mix between a human moan and an owl’s hoot. For reasons no Blue Whale knows, only us males sing.