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Follow a blue whale’s enormous body to the bottom of the ocean, where it sets the stage for a bustling new ecosystem to flourish.

All living things must one day die, and Earth’s largest creature, the majestic blue whale, is no exception. But in nature, death is never a true…

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1 author picked Life After Whale: The Amazing Ecosystem of a Whale Fall as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Such a glorious book that shows us the wonder of whales and why we need to protect them.

I fell in love with the blue whale drifting through a sea teeming with life. I watched her reveal an “elephant-sized tongue” that “shoved 21,000 gallons of seawater” out through her baleen filter, leaving her with a mouthful of krill that could “fill a school bus”!

Holy cow! I learned how her ears reveal her age and where she’s traveled over her lifetime. And when she died, my heart went with her. But wait! This was only the beginning, because it turns…

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