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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I like posts like this. I am both entertained and informed!

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why is that guy so annoyed, though?

A person being passionate about something is a good thing!

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago

Maybe he just knows about the 'Just so' fallacy and he's suspicious of even good-faith science communication being presented as narrative? I know I have that problem sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

She sounds perfect. I like people with a passion for science.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

So are blue whales no more than 100,000 years old?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Whales are surprisingly new.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Looked it up, 1.5 million years

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

What took you so long

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It makes sense when you consider they had to leave the sea only to return to it again later.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

Horseshoe Crabs: “Well, well, well, look who decided to come floating back.”

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Would this mean that the coming Age of Fire will result in smaller whales as global warming screws with the krill spawn rates?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Mini-whales, with micro-plastic infused baleen and a high calcium diet to help alleviate the effects of the acidic and irradiated seawater

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Too bad we already killed off the vaquitas.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Just critically endangered, not extinct...yet.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

But is there still enough krill for the blue whales?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Oh, this is cool!!!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Prevent predation? Seems like the orcas didn't get the memo.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

At least orcas don't do to whales what they do to sharks - eat their liver and leave them to die in agony.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

*smiles*

*nods*