How big is a whale egg?

Answer 1

Whales do not lay eggs. They are mammals and give birth to live young after pregnancy of the female whale. Normally only one calf is born at a time.

As mammals, whales have 'eggs' in the form of ova, reproductive cells stored in the ovaries, waiting to be fertilised. They are not much bigger a human ovum, around 0.12mm in diameter.

*The sharks known as "whale sharks" (not actual whales) were once thought to lay eggs. However, it was later discovered that (like other sharks) it is ovoviviparous, with hundreds of young that hatch internally before being released all at one time, when they are one or two feet long.

Answer 2

The egg cell of a whale is not substantially larger than those of other mammals. And as in other mammals, a fertilized cell will divide many times to produce the embryo or fetal stage.

Answer 3

Around the same size as a human egg cell.

Answer 4

it's 36cm high

Answer 5

Whales don't lay eggs.

Answer 6

size of a human egg