🐾
Fin whale
Balaenoptera physalus
Marine mammals · Vulnerable
vs
🐋
Blue whale
Balaenoptera musculus
Marine mammals · Endangered
7 clips name both of them
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Blue whale outweighs Fin whale 3.8× — 149,000 kg against 38,800 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
38,800 kg
🐾 Fin whale · COMBINE
149,000 kg
🐋 Blue whale · COMBINE
Body length
18 m
🐾 Fin whale · COMBINE
30 m
🐋 Blue whale · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
116 yr
🐾 Fin whale · COMBINE
110 yr
🐋 Blue whale · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
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このサイトに登場する動物の実際の映像——狩り、けんか、そしてふだんの暮らしぶりまでそろっています。
Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Cetacea (infraorder), home to 171 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 2.3 million years ago.
Estimates range from 1.9 to 3.5 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).