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dhcmrlchtdj__@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 3 years ago

Researchers Dispute Claim That Ancient Whale Was Heaviest Animal Ever

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Researchers Dispute Claim That Ancient Whale Was Heaviest Animal Ever

www.nytimes.com

dhcmrlchtdj__@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 3 years ago
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A new study argues that Perucetus, an ancient whale species, was certainly big, but not as big as today’s blue whales.
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  • dhcmrlchtdj__@lemmy.worldOP
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    “‘The data is clear. And that data is telling us the heaviest animal to ever walk this earth still remains yo momma.”

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      Oh yeah? Well yo momma so fat she got smaller fat people orbiting around her.

      (Wait, are we doing snaps?)

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        Yo momma so fat, when walmart wants to lower prices they have her sit on the roof.

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      Ah, that reminds me about this Day9 classic about Graham’s Number.

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    Edit: Damnit somebody already beat me to the yo momma joke.

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      I’ll still laugh if you tell it to me. Go ahead.

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        The reason the scientists were studying ancient whales in the first place is because the scientist couldn’t get your mom off his mind.

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          That’s pretty good! That reminds me of the time the editor at the magazine where I used to work asked me the difference between a whale and my mom: about 200lbs and a black dress.

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      There’s another one in there about a being an ancient whale and you let that slip too.

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    It’s pretty amazing that as huge and awesome as creatures in the past were, probably the biggest living thing ever is alive right now.

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      biggest living thing

      Animal.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_organisms

      When considering singular entities, the largest organisms are clonal colonies which can spread over large areas. Pando, a clonal colony of the quaking aspen tree, is widely considered to be the largest such organism by mass.[1]

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        probably the biggest living thing ever is alive right now.

        So they’re technically correct.

        Just not in the way they meant to be.

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