The blue whale is history's largest animal, larger even than the dinosaurs. At 33 metres in length, a little over 100 feet, blue whales are roughly equivalent to three school buses parked end to end. But statistics are a weak substitute for actually seeing this animal, a real life leviathan turning the waters of Atlantic Canada. The famous broadcaster and naturalist David Attenborough said it best:
"Its tongue weighs as much as an elephant, its heart is the size of a car and some of its blood vessels are so wide, you can swim down them."