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[00:]This is What’s Trending Today... [00:]Three million years may seem like a long time. [00:]But when you consider that planet Earth is more than billion years old, it is a pretty short period of time. [00:]And it is over that shorter time period that the whales in our oceans today got to be so large. [00:]The blue whale is the largest animal that has ever lived. [00:]They weigh more than even the biggest dinosaurs. [00:]They can grow to 30 meters long and weigh up to 130,000 kilograms. [00:]Blue whales are part of the baleen whale family. [00:]Baleen is a kind of food-filtering structure in the mouths of the whales. [01:]The whales developed this system about 30 million years ago. [01:]Other whales in the baleen family include fin whales, bowhead whales, and right whales. [01:]Today, these whales can weigh well over 70,000 kilograms. [01:]But for millions of years, they were not nearly that large, scientists say. [01:]“All of a sudden – ‘boom’ – we see them get very big, like blue whales,” scientist Nick Pyenson told the New York Times. [01:]He and other researchers recently published an article on whale size in the British research journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. [01:]“It’s like going from whales the size of minivans to longer than two school buses,” Pyenson added. [02:]The researchers -- Pyenson, Jeremy Goldbogen and Graham Slater -- believe that a change in the Earth’s climate caused whales to get so large only about 3 million years ago. [02:]This change led to food becoming more easily available. [02:]An oncoming ice age made the ocean water cold. [02:]High winds mixed the water in the ocean faster than before. [02:]Rain and snow made more nutrients run off from the land into the water. [02:]The nutrients resulted in algae. [02:]That attracted small fish and shrimp called krill. [02:]The mixture of nutrients resulted in more food for large whales to eat. [02:]Whales that were able to quickly eat a lot of food survived. And they got larger. [03:]Whales that had teeth instead of baleen, however, did not survive. [03:]The largest baleen whales then produced other large whales. [03:]Over the next three or four million years, the baleen whales grew 10 times bigger than they had been, the researchers say. [03:]It is possible that the largest whales are gone, the researchers said. [03:]But, as they told the BBC, blue whales could grow even bigger -- or they could slowly die – depending on Earth’s changing climate. [03:]And that’s What’s Trending Today. [03:]I’m Dan Friedell.
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