There will come a day in the near future when we will see the last of these gentle giants. All bc oil is more important than blue waters, cash is preferable to clean beaches, and people cant bother to stop tossing their garbage into the ocean bc, "its only one straw/bag/empty pack of cigarettes/drink" but multiply that by a million. 10 million. 100 million. The ONE straw matters. ONE bag, ONE bottle matters when its multiplied by other garbage humans who cant be bothered to wait to throw it out
Busselton Jetty is a jetty located in Busselton, Western Australia. It is the longest timber-piled jetty (pier) in the Southern Hemisphere at 1,841 metres (6,040 ft) long.
I think that one looks particularly thin--that's what hit me. Usually they ARE thicker, but they're still "thin" for their length compared to smaller whales.
It blows my mind that we happen to live in this same blip of time with the largest animal to ever live. This is something I only found out over the last year. Before, I would have bet my life savings that certainly there were several other ‘bigger’ animals before the blue whale
I went whale watching once and a mama blue whale and her calf came over to check out the boat. They both came alongside, less than 10 feet from the hull, and then swam right under us. It was the most amazing and terrifying thing I've ever seen. Mama could have capsized us with little more than a thought. Beautiful animals.
I find it a delightful coincidence that despite a very long decline in large animals that we should still manage to live at the same time as the largest ever (at least, that we have discovered thus far).
Have no real concept of just how large these are having not seen one. But when I read the blue whale heart is the size of a hatchback car it gives a little perspective.
I had the good fortune to see one on a whale watching boat in 2000. Also hard to gauge in person because you see it in 30-40 foot sections as they breach. We didn't get to see the entire thing all laid out in a line, just one enormous chunk, then it rotated, another enormous chunk, then it dove. The naturalist on board estimated about 90 to 100 feet, it was a massive fully-grown adult. Just utterly astounding
Probably the largest animal in Earth's history. There's some evidence of an Icthyotitan that was longer than a blue whale, but not enough to prove that length and nowhere near enough information to have a good estimate of its weight.
If the sun should go instantly cold tomorrow, the earth losing its orbit and spiral out into the nothing space between the stars, life would survive. The deep sea thermal vents will function so long as the earth spins and contains plenty of life. Besides which it is quite possible that life did not originate on earth. There are reasons to believe it existed on comets, not to mention Mars. Life will be fine without humans, but it will revert to its cruel and crude state.
Perhaps mega reptiles but not mammals. Large mammals will overheat as volume rises based on a cubic function while surface area is only squared. Large mammals won't have enough surface area to shed their own body heat. Giant mammals have been vanishing since the end of the last ice age. Partially humans fault, partially climate warming.
Blue Whale Size: Up to 100 feet (30 meters) or more in length Weight: Can weigh up to 200 tons (180 metric tons) Environment: Lives in the ocean, where its weight is supported by the water. Status: The largest animal to have ever lived.
Titanosaur Size: Some species, like Argentinosaurus and Patagotitan, reaching over 100 feet (30 meters). Weight: Estimated to be in the range of 70-80 tons. Environment: A land-dwelling dinosaur, meaning its bones and muscles had to support its own weight.
There were a few, I watched a recent series on largest animals. There was one that was a forager of vegetation that was slightly larger than the blue whale
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Source https://magazine.theweek.co.uk/editions/uk.co.dennis.theweek.single.issue1301/data/107557/index.html
bingotown
I’m going to need a couple truck loads of bananas for scale.
BenjyX55
L O N G
7hatsBollocks
Long long whaaaaaaaaale....
nojustsayitdont
A banana for scale would be helpful.
Superchief86
Busselton Jetty on imgur? Neat! Beautiful place.
GreenMnM
There will come a day in the near future when we will see the last of these gentle giants. All bc oil is more important than blue waters, cash is preferable to clean beaches, and people cant bother to stop tossing their garbage into the ocean bc, "its only one straw/bag/empty pack of cigarettes/drink" but multiply that by a million. 10 million. 100 million. The ONE straw matters. ONE bag, ONE bottle matters when its multiplied by other garbage humans who cant be bothered to wait to throw it out
Farreg
Busselton Jetty is a jetty located in Busselton, Western Australia. It is the longest timber-piled jetty (pier) in the Southern Hemisphere at 1,841 metres (6,040 ft) long.
airbreather
Hey I'm gonna be there again next week! I guarantee I will spend at least a third of my time shooting whales. [photographically]
SuperMarioToadsShrillVoice
Toss the whale a banana for scale!
anybodyjohn4
we need a banana for scale
Borninatent
Used to live there! Wild that its there. No exactly on the beach because the jetty is also long, but still an incredible occasion
Spiffytown
If you laid one of those out on a basketball court, the game would stop
nelllybellly1
I always pictured them as fat but that's kind of skinny in proportion to its length.
Feralkyn
I think that one looks particularly thin--that's what hit me. Usually they ARE thicker, but they're still "thin" for their length compared to smaller whales.
Feralkyn
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/c7/c6/fd/c7c6fd1c4fd4776cd6855fb72db38fd9.jpg
adamlstf9
Wanna pet the big fiishy!
scr1bbl3
Alan Davies approves
Sigge1981
https://media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1d3prZzRqNnZibzRveTN2NGltbmluM3UwcjlqcTJyd3UxbWJ2NmM0eiZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/9uffe4HEa29LApTR14/200w.webp
Greenrangerguy
That one time it was a Blue Whale
graehall
*alarm goes off*
scr1bbl3
KLAXXON!!!
kailord
https://media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1YTA1d3QxemJhNXo1azFpZmhjcG8waGIwd2FtNTFnd2F5Z2M2NWY4diZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/3ov9jMZz5PRhMqYh0Y/200w.webp
GorillaFLicks
I would shit my pants in awe if I saw one that close.
phoony
PeppiriusPeppersusscrofa
Hard disagree.I LOVE deep sea critters.Tripod fish they could never make me hate you
HeywouldJablowme
When I was in elementary school in the '80s, we were taught that the blue whale was extinct.
Feralkyn
Lol what the fuck?
landofentrapment
That’s the world Snake right there
shameofslate
Whale hello there
MeshHatMafia
It blows my mind that we happen to live in this same blip of time with the largest animal to ever live. This is something I only found out over the last year. Before, I would have bet my life savings that certainly there were several other ‘bigger’ animals before the blue whale
Cookie0fPower
Majestic
judyblue
I went whale watching once and a mama blue whale and her calf came over to check out the boat. They both came alongside, less than 10 feet from the hull, and then swam right under us. It was the most amazing and terrifying thing I've ever seen. Mama could have capsized us with little more than a thought. Beautiful animals.
clonedeeznuts
Where the banana for scale
wiltsjunk
Earth's mightiest fish
quietconfetti
Need a banana
chittychittybangbanglovesustoo
Every human being should swear that we will never harm them.
CaptainHyperbole
They keep getting hit by cargo ships
miertfoglaltmindenfelhasznalonev
All of us are harming them already, sadly.
PeppiriusPeppersusscrofa
Not really.Its mostly just the rich
alexcoldt
And we're letting the rich live, so it's still mostly our fault.
OverwhelmingSurplusOfDiggity
https://media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTY1YjkxZmJlcHo2aW1lYnB1NXJxZThxbWFlaDV6Zmt3a3pqOWJhbTA0Y3lodTludCZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/G1vSQTIvPtbEY/200w.mp4
ishouldprobablybeplayingpokemonATM
Just finished reading “if anyone builds it, everyone dies” and I’m feeling like we are definitely going to harm them
IceWeaselX
Humans have a really shitty track record of doing what we swear to do.
pritolus
Starting with Japan, Iceland, and my country Norway. The only countries in the world to refuse the international ban on whale hunting.
simmerdim
And the Faroe Isles.
Whyyeah
i think there's some ocean tribes that still do it too but like...they get a pass? atleast thats my understanding
pritolus
It's indefensible whichever way you do it
Kittynomnoms
It isn't necessary, so they shouldn't. We are humans, "it's our way" isn't a good enough excuse.
ivymantled69
The biggest animal in earth’s history. I sometimes wonder if anything bigger will evolve in the remaining life-friendly time Earth has left.
anononanonanona
I find it a delightful coincidence that despite a very long decline in large animals that we should still manage to live at the same time as the largest ever (at least, that we have discovered thus far).
defrostedtauntaun
Chris Christie?
huffnpuff72
Have no real concept of just how large these are having not seen one. But when I read the blue whale heart is the size of a hatchback car it gives a little perspective.
theThousandHells
I had the good fortune to see one on a whale watching boat in 2000. Also hard to gauge in person because you see it in 30-40 foot sections as they breach. We didn't get to see the entire thing all laid out in a line, just one enormous chunk, then it rotated, another enormous chunk, then it dove. The naturalist on board estimated about 90 to 100 feet, it was a massive fully-grown adult. Just utterly astounding
mockingbird75
Wow. No comments about @op's mom?
rulerofthedingdongs
Given our current direction, that viable time seems to be about 8 weeks. So I’d say no.
Skevoid
Probably the largest animal in Earth's history. There's some evidence of an Icthyotitan that was longer than a blue whale, but not enough to prove that length and nowhere near enough information to have a good estimate of its weight.
Queenoftheforks
There will always be life there are mass extinctions that happen all the time. So no dolphins or lions but other things will pop up this is the way
aThingWithAKeyboard
At some point the sun will expand and there, 100%, be a complete extinction on earth.
Isorikk
Always is a bold claim given the definitely limited amount of time before our solar system is sterilized by it's host star
Margrave9000
Capitalism and conservatives are doing their best to extinguish all life though. They are a death cult.
Tengenstein
The extremophiles know. The extremophiles do not care.
Goldensands
If the sun should go instantly cold tomorrow, the earth losing its orbit and spiral out into the nothing space between the stars, life would survive. The deep sea thermal vents will function so long as the earth spins and contains plenty of life. Besides which it is quite possible that life did not originate on earth. There are reasons to believe it existed on comets, not to mention Mars. Life will be fine without humans, but it will revert to its cruel and crude state.
CommunCreator
Since large animals seemed to thrive in higher temperatures, the post-warming earth may be more conducive to mega-fauna than the current climate.
ejw909
Perhaps mega reptiles but not mammals. Large mammals will overheat as volume rises based on a cubic function while surface area is only squared. Large mammals won't have enough surface area to shed their own body heat. Giant mammals have been vanishing since the end of the last ice age. Partially humans fault, partially climate warming.
CommunCreator
One place where whales have the Advantage, as water removes heat much more efficiently than air.
originalhuman
No dinosaur was bigger?
kailord
Iunno, what about the Titanosaur?
kailord
Blue Whale
Size: Up to 100 feet (30 meters) or more in length
Weight: Can weigh up to 200 tons (180 metric tons)
Environment: Lives in the ocean, where its weight is supported by the water.
Status: The largest animal to have ever lived.
Titanosaur
Size: Some species, like Argentinosaurus and Patagotitan, reaching over 100 feet (30 meters).
Weight: Estimated to be in the range of 70-80 tons.
Environment: A land-dwelling dinosaur, meaning its bones and muscles had to support its own weight.
graehall
There were a few, I watched a recent series on largest animals. There was one that was a forager of vegetation that was slightly larger than the blue whale
Lisossoma
But not as heavy, I believe. There are some marine animals which a re longer like some medusas, but do not have the same mass
tentacularfleshscape
By length maybe but not mass iirc
Skevoid
The largest was about 40% of the weight of a blue whale. If we're calling long animals 'largest' then the winner is the bootlace worm.
Churmybro
Crazy to think there wasn't a bigger thing in the ocean.
cuckatruck
Maybe we just haven't found it yet. We haven't explored the whole ocean yet
Churmybro
Yeah but it would have to be a deep sea thing? we would have spotted something bigger by now