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...to keep things in perspective, that's a blue whale at the top of the image. It's a large specimen (30 meters, probably 170-180 tonnes) but not the largest individual ever reported. And while several of the biggest sauropods may have been a bit longer, notice that you could fold up all four of these sauropods and shove them inside the same amount of space.

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  1. Casey G.July 22, 2014 at 2:37 PM

    Blue whales are big.

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  2. William Benjamin John Davis (SinbadEV)July 22, 2014 at 2:50 PM

    To Paraphrase Adams:
    Blue whales are big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big they are. I mean, you may think dinosaurs or elephants are big, but they're just peanuts to blue whales.

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  3. Casey G.July 22, 2014 at 2:57 PM

    180 tonnes ~ 400,000 lbs.

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