No extinct animal approached the existing whale in either bulk or weight. He is from eighty to ninety feet long, and has neither neck nor any length of tail. His outline is egg-like. He weighs 200 tons—forty times as much as a big elephant—and is supported without any strain on his structure by the water in which he floats. Probably he cannot exceed some HO feet in length and 200 tons of bulk on account of the relatively great increase of propor* tional size and power required in the heart to propel the blood through such a vast mass of living tissueland keep him going as a warm-bloodecPm ammal,
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 329, 23 January 1932, Page 25 (Supplement)
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