Close up of the heart

The heart of the blue whale has long been rumored to be about the size of a car. Its main circuit, according to some experts, is even large enough for people to swim through.

Close up of the great heart of the blue whale

For the first time, scientists had the opportunity to study this huge organ and their new discovery revealed new details about the "terrifying" creature that possessed it.

Blue whale is currently the largest animal on the planet, with body length can reach 30.5 meters. Because blue whales are extremely rare, scientists have never had the opportunity to study their heart structure in detail in the past.

The body of a 23.3-meter blue whale drifted into Canada's Newfoundland coast last year.(Photo: The Star)

However, they had the opportunity to observe the heart of this " giant" creature after the corpse of a blue whale drifted into Canada 's Newfoundland coast in May last year. According to the BBC, the Ontario Royal Museum is tasked with anatomy of this 23.3-meter-long blue whale.

The team identified, most likely, the ill-fated blue whale that was hit by unusual thick patches of ice or drowned while stuck under the ice and unable to absorb oxygen.

With a weight of nearly 180kg, the weight of the blue whale's heart is equivalent to that of a large traction tire and needs 3-4 people to lift up. From the top of the aorta to the lowest chamber of the heart 1.5 meters long .

" We had to slit the blue whale's chest to reach the heart, then get in there to take it out of all the surrounding tissue, including the lungs and blood, as high as my waist. "It's a horrible job because there's nothing more scary than a dead whale," said mammal researcher Jacqueline Miller, a member of the group that killed the blue whale carcass.

Ms. Miller revealed, the original once hoped to find the heart of the size of a car, but actually found it a little smaller, just the size of a 2-seat electric car used exclusively for players. golf.The aorta of the blue whale's heart is also not large enough to fit in an adult inside, but only allows a human head to slip through.

Scientists need to use up to 1,000 liters of formaldehyde to preserve the "whale" heart of the blue whale.(Photo: The Star)

The heart of the blue whale has been frozen for 1 year and has recently been formaldehyde-soaked and plasticized. Expected, the most "internal" organ in the world will be displayed in the Ontario Museum in the near future.