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[โ€“] roguetrick@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Fucking sperm whales: lets evolve from land herbavores to dive down and hunt what would be by all rights deep sea apex predators

I mean to get something that big on land, it would literally have to be a dragon flying around with a huge range to eat bears or something all over California. It's nuts

[โ€“] Beacon@fedia.io 4 points 2 days ago

To get land animals that big the environment just needs to be different than it is today, which is how we got giant dinosaurs