We made balloons the size of a blue whale.

制造了蓝鲸那么大的气球。

Life spans seven orders of magnitude, from invisible bacteria to mites, ants, mice, dogs, humans, elephants and, blue whales.

生命的尺寸横跨七个等级， 从看不见的细菌到尘螨、蚂蚁、老鼠、狗、人类、大象、蓝鲸。

We can see we see fin whales, humpbacks, minkes...the occasional blue whale.

可以看到长须鲸、座头鲸、小须鲸......偶尔会看到蓝鲸。

Blue whales are the largest animals ever to exist on Earth.

蓝鲸是地球上有史以来存在过的最大动物。

That waste is equal to about 1,600 blue whales.

这相当于一千六百头蓝鲸的重量。

The 26-metre-long dinosaur was displayed from 1905 until 2017 when it was replaced by the skeleton of a female blue whale promisingly named, Hope.

这26米长的恐龙从1905一直展出到2017，后来被一雌性蓝鲸的骨架所取代，其被赋予了饱含希望的名字——希望。

These are blue whales from the southern ocean.

这些是来自南大洋的蓝鲸。

To put it in perspective, the blue whale is the largest animal on the planet!

具体来讲，蓝鲸是地球上最大的生物！

The sound of a blue whale can travel over a thousand kilometers and is one of the loudest sounds in the ocean.

蓝鲸的叫声可以传播1000多公里，是海洋里中最大的声音之一。

Blue whales are larger than even the biggest dinosaurs.

蓝鲸甚至比最大的恐龙还要大。

But all that she could see, see, see was a blue whale swimming, and a baby shark swimming, and an octopus swimming, and a turtle swimming, and a jellyfish swimming, and a seahorse swimming in the sea, sea, sea.

但她能看到一蓝鲸、一鲨宝宝、一、一海龟、一水母和一海马在海里游啊游。

Today this 1-centimeter crustacean will share the same fate as 40 million of his closest friends: a life sentence in the belly of the largest blue whale in the world.

今天，这 1 厘米长的甲壳类动物将会与它 4000 万的亲密朋友遭受同样的命运：在世上最大的蓝鲸的肚子里囚禁终生。

The blue whale holds the current record as the largest creature to live on Earth.

蓝鲸保持着目前地球上最大生物的纪录。

And all it took was for people to stop hunting blue whales.

而要实现这一目标，需停止猎杀蓝鲸。

Blue whales can grow up to 30 meters long.

蓝鲸可以长到30米长。

Why have humans not evolved this variegated gang of anti-cancer proteins, or indeed the different suite of cellular protections enjoyed by blue whales, if they would confer such a clear-cut survival benefit?

如果能够带来如此明确的生存益处，为什么人类没有进化出这种五花八门的抗癌蛋白质，还是蓝鲸享有的不同的细胞保护呢？

With this new krillion calorie diet, together with their air-breathing lungs and water-supported bodies, blue whales quickly tripled in size to become not just gigantic but truly the largest animals to have ever lived.

有了这种新的千万亿卡路里饮食，加上它呼吸空气的肺和水支持的身体，蓝鲸的体型迅速增加了两倍，不仅成为巨大的，而且真正成为有史以来最大的动物。

Though nothing on the scale of the blue whale, it is a decidedly substantial animal, with eyes the size of soccer balls and trailing tentacles that can reach lengths of sixty feet.

虽然它的个儿比不上蓝鲸，但它肯定是个庞然大物，眼睛有足球那么大，触角可以伸到18米长。

Before I knew it, I found myself with a bunch of researchers in the Sea of Cortez studying the blue whales.

还没反应过来，就和一群研究人员一起踏上了科尔特斯海的蓝鲸研究之旅。

There are more than 5, 400 species of mammals alive on the earth today, and they range in size from the tiny bumblebee bat to the gigantic blue whale.

今天地球上现存有超过5400种哺乳动物，它的体型跨度从细小的大黄蜂蝙蝠到巨大的蓝鲸。