Sea Save Foundation
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Scientists hypothesize why baleen whales (ie blue and humpback whales) evolved to such a large size. They published in "The Proceedings of the Royal Society" that 4.5 million years ago, a climatic change necessitated binge-eating behavior. Using a phylogenetic macroevolutionary model, they incorporated data that lead them to speculate that size increase via Brownian movement and made this eating behavior more efficient.
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Read more here (number 5)