The blue whale: large in life, even larger in death


MY FIVE-year-old is in a phase where he is very curious about the relative sizes of things.

"How big is a blue whale?" (It is as big as 33 African elephants.)

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Science She Wrote , blue whale , orca , whale fall
Dr Khayriyyah Mohd Hanafiah

Dr Khayriyyah Mohd Hanafiah

Dr Khayriyyah Mohd Hanafiah is an honorary fellow at Macfarlane Burnet Institute (Melbourne, Australia) and an alum of the Young Scientists Network-Academy of Sciences Malaysia. She is active in science communication and infectious disease biomedical research. She was the first female Asian champion of FameLab, the world’s longest running science communication competition, in 2018. The writer’s views are her own.

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