It lives on the east coast by Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Virginia but in the deep waters. Blue whales are endangered animals because of their blubber which people want. Blubber is a thick layer of fat under a whale s skin. A long time ago people used blubber to make oil for oil lamps before we had electricity. Nowadays, people use blubber to make margarine, soap, face creams, and lots more.
People hunt the blue whales to get their blubber.
The U.S. has now passed a law that no one is allowed to import whale products into the U.S. Other countries also have laws about whale hunting, and the International Whaling Commission, set up in 1946, makes rules about how many whales can be hunted. The blue whale is the largest animal that ever lived. Some blue whales are bigger than the biggest dinosaur. The biggest blue whale weighed the weight of 25 full-grown elephants. The heart of a blue whale is the size of a small car.