Posted on 05/24/2017 11:12:25 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
BLUE whales and other underwater leviathans became giants when climate change introduced them to binge-eating, research has shown.
At more than 100ft long, the blue whale is the largest vertebrate animal that has ever lived.
The reason for the size expansion of the blue whale and other baleen whales was food, the researchers believe.
Dr Graham Slater, a member of the US team from the University of Chicago, said: “We might imagine that whales just gradually got bigger over time, as if by chance, and perhaps that could explain how these whales became so massive.
“But our analyses show that this idea doesn’t hold up – the only way that you can explain baleen whales becoming the giants they are today is if something changed in the recent past that created an incentive to be a giant and made it disadvantageous to be small.”
Co-author Dr Jeremy Goldbogen, from Stanford University in California, said: "We live in a time of giants. Baleen whales have never been this big, ever."
Another advantage of large size was the ability to make epic journeys of thousands of miles to take advantage of seasonally abundant food supplies, said the scientists.
"But today's oceans and climate are changing at geological scales in the course of human lifetimes.
"With these rapid changes, does the ocean have the capacity to sustain several billion people and the world's largest whales?
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
Must have been all those SUV’s the dinosaurs were driving.
These global warming/climate change hacks just make it up as they go.
Isn’t that the truth.
Very creative I might add.
So THAT’S why I’ve been gaining weight lately..................Does this weather make me look fat?...............
So...global warming happened before Jonah and the whale?
One need only look at temp records over geological time frames to see how absurd this claim is. This speaker might as well have said: "I am a quack, and my research ought be ignored or used for entertainment purposes only."
Humans used to be a lot shorter than they are today
Explains Rosie O’Donnell...
So Global Warming should be accepted as an important part of Evolution.
Yes... excess food caused their genes to mutate, making them giants. Of course.
These people are just loony.
Climate Change is an all powerful cult religion.
There is nothing its gods can not do.
buncha hooey, they eat krill,plankton and squid and small fish. They fart big time. Danged methane emitters, and also disgorge huge amounts of C02.
Gotta lay off all that krill, dude. Head for the Sargasso Sea & veg out for a while.
;^)
hehehehehehe you were thinking the sane as me hehehehehehehe
According to scientists, this occurred 25 million years ago.
FAKE NEWS!
If you have a wild theory and you need exposure, include copious mentions of climate change. That will get just about anything published.
LOL
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