Why Did Whales Get So Massive?

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Why Did Whales Get So Massive?
 
 
By Jason Daley
smithsonian.com
May 24, 2017 4:20PM
 

Whales are curious creatures: Why did the animals get so big? When did they balloon to such massive proportions? And as Elizabeth Pennisi reports for Science, a new study has some surprising answers.

Researchers have long guessed at why baleen whales—a group of cetaceans that includes humpback, minke, right whales and others—grew so big. As Ed Yong writes for the Atlantic:



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