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Largest heart ever seen is on display in a Canadian museum
short by Gaurav Shroff / on Tuesday, 8 August, 2017
The largest heart ever seen, belonging to a blue whale that washed ashore Canada's Newfoundland three years ago, is currently on display at the Royal Ontario Museum. The heart, measuring 5x4x4 cubic-feet, would've weighed over 181 kg before removal from the 90-tonne carcass. The organ was preserved for 1.5 years and its organic material was replaced with a silicone polymer.
read more at Reuters