> “This is the biggest predation event on this planet: the biggest apex predator taking down the biggest prey,” says study co-author Robert Pitman, a marine eco

> “This is the biggest predation event on this planet: the biggest apex predator taking down the biggest prey,” says study co-author Robert Pitman, a marine ecologist at Oregon State University’s Marine Mammal Institute. “We don’t have dinosaurs anymore, so for me as a whale biologist and a zoologist it’s an amazing thing.” He is actually understating this. Not only is the Blue Whale the largest animal living now, it is the largest animal that has ever lived. It is roughly the size of a Boeing 737 (a 737-700 is longer(110 ft for a 737-700 vs 98 ft for a blue whale), but a blue whale weighs more (155,000lbs max ramp weight for a 737-700 versus 200,000lbs for a blue whale))