What is the biggest animal after the blue whale?

Blue whales are the largest animals to have ever existed. Learn why they're larger than any ... A blue whale's tongue alone can weigh as much as an elephant—its heart as much as an automobile. Photograph by Hiroya ... When a blue whale exhales, the spray from its blowhole shoots nearly 30 feet into the air. Tweet This. read more

The second largest animal in the world is the Fin (or Finback) whale. It belongs to the same suborder as the Blue whale—baleen whales. The largest ever recorded was a whopping 25.9 metres (85 feet). read more

By considerable measure, the largest known animal on Earth is the blue whale. Mature blue whales can measure anywhere from 75 feet (23 m) to 100 feet (30.5 m) from head to tail, and can weigh as much as 150 tons (136 metric tons). read more

Only the sea could support the weight of a fully grown blue whale. One hundred and eighty tons is a lot of whale. On land an animal of that size would collapse under its own weight. At 90 to 100 feet long and submarine shaped they move majestically through the sea at 3 to 5 miles per hour. read more