The world's largest animals are Blue whales, they weigh up to 137,000kg but many find it had to believe that they have massive hearts.
Researchers in Toronto, Canada have preserved a huge, 200kg blue whale heart that was retrieved from a carcass in Newfoundland in 2014.
The gigantic heart which has the same size as a smart car, pumps up to 220 liters of blood per minute has been placed on display at the Royal Ontario Museum.
The gigantic heart which has the same size as a smart car, pumps up to 220 liters of blood per minute has been placed on display at the Royal Ontario Museum.
According to the researchers, they are preserving it through a process of plastination, which involves soaking it in acetone to remove all the water.
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