Whales v. dinosaurs, weight correction

[jamolnar@juno.com]

On Friday,  24 Apr 1998, Gautam Majumdar wrote:
>As for the weight, the two heaviest (estimated) blue whales were 190 and
199 tons<

Was that U. S. tons or metric tonnes?

The 130 U.S. ton weight I cited in an earlier post for the blue whale was
in Savage and Long's book on the evolution of mammals (1980s).  But my
mistake was in the units:  Savage and Long gave the weight as 130 tonnes
(metric tons, not U. S. tons).  I misremembered or noted it incorrectly. 
My apologies! Mea Culpa!

Also, as Gautam said, whalers' weights were not always accurate in the
way we can use for comparisons.  After all, weighing a whole blue whale
isn't easy! 

We don't know if we have found the largest individual of the blue whale
or any species of dinosaur, yet.

Judy Molnar
Education Associate, Virginia Living Museum
vlmed@juno.com
jamolnar@juno.com
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