Researchers Dispute Claim That Ancient Whale Was Heaviest Animal Ever

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/29/science/giant-whale-perucetus.html

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dhcmrlchtdj__@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 2y (3 replies)

“‘The data is clear. And that data is telling us the heaviest animal to ever walk this earth still remains yo momma.”

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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

(Wait, are we doing snaps?)

psycho_driver@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

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

Cavemanfreak@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y

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

psycho_driver@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y (4 replies)

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

thefartographer@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y (2 replies)

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

NineMileTower@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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

thefartographer@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y

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.

NineMileTower@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

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

JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 2y (2 replies)

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.

tal@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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]

tb_@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

probably the biggest living thing ever is alive right now.

So they're technically correct.

Just not in the way they meant to be.

calmb@kbin.melroy.org · -8 pts · 2y
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