Right under the skeleton of the second largest animal in the world, you could figure out how Jonah and Pinocchio must have felt. And the one above you is just a baby Balaenoptera physalus, better known as fin whale. This baleen whale species – a baleen being a substitute of teeth for filtering water and trapping small shellfish – can reach 26 meters in length.
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