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![Blue Whale skeleton](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/BlueWhaleSkeleton.jpg/250px-BlueWhaleSkeleton.jpg)
Photo credit: Bronwen Lea, 14 May 2004
A Blue whale skeleton, outside the Long Marine Laboratory at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Blue Whales are the largest animal ever to have existed. Hunting of Blue Whales has led to a severe decline in numbers across the globe.