Blue whales evolved into giants when ‘climate change turned them into binge eaters’

The Sun ^ | May 24, 2017 | By Jasper Hamill

[Red Badger]

12. Hillairy will win by a landslide.

[DoughtyOne]

Agreed.

[rjsimmon]

Take your pick. According to evolutionists, organisms choose to evolve.

[nevergore]

Well that explains Rosie and Michael Moore

[Red Badger]

well, I refuse to evolve, then.................

[FroggyTheGremlim]

Explains Rosie O’Donnell...

What, Rosie O’Donnell eats SUVs?

[rjsimmon]

Then you are stuck being the loveable Badger that you are!

[DannyTN]

That's the same reason dogs evolved into humans. They needed to talk, and they needed oppose-able thumbs. So they evolved.

[Pontiac]

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.”

If human beings are in any way representative of why animals become larger it is because they can.

Humans that have better diets grow more quickly and grow larger. The more generations that pass with better diets the larger the offspring grow.

Larger size is always beneficial if the food supply will support the larger size. Larger animals have an advantage over smaller animals of the same species in surviving predation and attracting mates unless food is scarce.

My guess is that the Blue Wales grew larger because they became better at hunting. Recently the Blue Wales have been found to have cooperative feeding techniques that make them very efficient hunters.

I suggest that when they developed this feeding techniques and became much more successful hunters it permitted them to grow larger.

[tumblindice]

I'm seeing more pods of electric cart whales in the grocery stores. They must be binge feeding in the bakery.

[broken_arrow1]

Minnows used to be whales too, but their growth was stunted by climate deniers.

[NewMexLurker]

The Godwhale, by T.J. Bass

I read that one, along with his other related story "Half Past Human". Very odd pair of books.