Human Age to Whale Years Calculator

Balaenoptera musculus, also called blue whale, is a species of cetacean in the Balaenopteridae family. Females are larger than males. Its average length is 25 to 27 m for a weight of 130 tons, but it can exceed 31 meters in length and 170 tons, it is the largest living animal in our time and in the current state of knowledge, the larger (before two large sauropods including Diplodocus hallorum) having lived on Earth. The longest confirmed specimen was 33.5 m long and the heaviest weighed 190 tons.

Long and slender, the blue whale's body can take on various shades of bluish-gray on the back and a little paler below. Like other whales, the blue whale feeds mainly on a small crustacean, krill, plankton but also small fish and sometimes squid.

Blue whales were abundant in almost all oceans before the turn of the 20th century. For almost forty years, they were hunted by whalers who brought the species to the brink of extinction before it was protected by the international community in 1966. A 2002 report estimated that there were between 5,000 and 12,000 blue whales around the world, located in at least five groups.

The blue whale has a long, slender body that can appear stretched in comparison to the stocky bodies of other whales. Its head is flat and has the shape of a U. A median ridge is drawn between the vents and the end of the upper jaw. The mouth is densely filled with about 300 baleen (each about a meter long) of black color which hang down from the upper jaw, and return about 0.5 meter inside the animal's mouth. Between 60 and 90 furrows (called ventral folds) run along the throat parallel to the body. These folds facilitate the evacuation of water from the mouth after taking food. The dorsal fin is small and visible only briefly during the dive sequence. Located approximately three quarters of the animal's body, its shape varies from one individual to another; in some individuals it appears as an almost imperceptible bump, but others have a prominent and sickle-shaped dorsal fin.

The head of the blue whale is particularly large compared to that of other whale species. In addition, its head represents almost a quarter of the total length of the whale. The blue whale has between 63 and 65 vertebrae, distributed as follows: 7 cervical, 15 to 16 dorsal, 14 to 16 lumbar and 26 to 28 sacral. It has 15 pairs of ribs, only one of which articulates with the sternum.

Human to Blue Whale years calculator: How old am I in blue whale years? A human's 1 year is equal to about 1.09 years of a blue whale's lifespan. We've created an easy-to-understand chart that shows your age by converting it to a blue whale's age.