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 doesnt 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?
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12. Hillairy will win by a landslide.
Agreed.
Take your pick. According to evolutionists, organisms choose to evolve.
Well that explains Rosie and Michael Moore
well, I refuse to evolve, then.................
Explains Rosie ODonnell...
What, Rosie O’Donnell eats SUVs?
Then you are stuck being the loveable Badger that you are!
But our analyses show that this idea doesnt 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.
Minnows used to be whales too, but their growth was stunted by climate deniers.
I read that one, along with his other related story "Half Past Human". Very odd pair of books.
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