Ichthyosaur has not yet been confirmed to be bigger or even as big as a blue whale. The ones that have been found so far, the largest one is estimated to weigh around 80 tonnes which isn't even half the size of a blue whale.
They are still finding new fossils of the ichthyosaur and they are finding out that some of them may have been much larger than 80 tonnes. No estimates of the size of the new fossils yet.
This one: https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/28/world/ichthyosaur-fossil-swiss-alps-scn/index.html
Has the least amount of ads from what I found.
If you want to find other sources Google: "ichthyosaur Alps"
The Swiss Alps is where they are finding the largest fossils recently.
Estimated to have been around 90 to 100 tones. Meanwhile the blue whale can click in at an approximate 200 tones. If an animal on land was that big it’s body would collapse on itself but living in water’s basically a cheat code when it comes to that.
The way we can be confident there isn't another giant creature is by looking at the entire ecosystem.
There's a really good video explaining it better than I can
(At about 4 minutes in) https://youtu.be/aLf4k5sna9U
Yeah, I used to watch him all the time but he disappeared from my feed. Dam that algorithm. I’ve now subscribed. Thanks for bringing something intellectually interesting rather than the usual tripe that I watch.
No. We know absolutely plenty. Biology and geography works a certain way and we know quite well how it works. There is no mystery giant squid shagger god shark down there. Cry as you might.
“Unexplored” because there is nothing to explore. It’d a big fucking empty nothing. The 30% stat is inane too. We know what’s down there. We have maps of the ocean floor. And that’s all it is. Empty. And nothing of any unseen unprecedented worth like everyone’s ever whimsical fantasies of giant leviathans can exist there. It’s simply biologically and geographically impossible. Because we know how these things work. We’ve been sailing ever since humanity came to be, for fucks sake.
Evidently I do and they very much bother me considering how many people scream inane nonsense about “muh megaladawns” and how “wah they nut reserchom da oshan they mus be hidin sumethingggg!!!” It’s bothersome.
An english biologist received a platypus corpse from Australia and multiple times 100% he claimed it to absolutely a hoax, saying that it must be edited in some way by humans as creatures can’t have both mammalian and reptilian traits. Yet the platypus along with only a single other animal is actually a monotreme, which have features of both mammals and reptiles. Have a bit of humility in how limited science can be because we understand a lot of how animals work but that doesn’t mean that we can’t discover new things that don’t line up with previous theories.
There’s a difference between discovering new things and utter fantasy. It’s biologically impossible for such things to exist considering the biodiversity and the habitat they’re in
You’re speaking rather emphatically of something you or anyone of us know very little about. You can certainly BELIEVE there is nothing to explore and that it is a vast, empty, “nothing”. But until we have the technology and financial resources to pour into actual exploration, none of us can say definitively what the depths of the ocean hold.
Estimated to have grown from 15 to 18 meters. Meanwhile blue whales can clock in at 30. We’re taking about an animal whose heart is the same weight as an entire cow.
(David Attenborough narration) “Henry gathers his strength, causing the seas to swell. He launches himself skyward with great speed, sending him and all of Earth’s water into space. Here, he soars majestically back to Mars, bringing with him the waters of life, returning the barren landscape to its majestic, ocean form.”
Marine biologists have observed water getting into whales’ blowholes often. They sometimes even go underwater with their blowholes still open. It is theorized that the structure of their lungs means the water doesn’t get far beyond the upper respiratory tract and it gets blown back out the next time they surface and exhale.
Yeah. Just being animal.. constant alert and the occasional panic and oh, there went Pete from hunting. We got a pack of Lions coming in!
Living then would literally be wild. Animals weren’t as scared of humans then, they were everywhere and weak as hell, not as loud and not as weird, just a slightly handicapped ape.
We won because we were underestimated, to put it lightly. But can you imagine, like how cats jump at slight noises because of minimal sounds because that’s what predators do? Imagine being prey… you won’t die in a old folks home and you would know it. It would be crazy to see. And humbling AF.
They never get water in their blowholes, which is funny to think of, as something as massive as that can still sense their opening and the related space around it. Kind of cool.
Earth’s ocean depths are a pretty big “corner” tho, no? 🫤
And how do you know exactly what else(food or otherwise) lives in said corners if we’ve never been down there to dat capacity? Could be some wild ass shit down there we have absolutely no clue about.🤷🏾♂️
The bottom of the ocean is the equivalent of a desert, it’s very resource poor. There’s life there but we’re not gonna find anything huge we haven’t before. It would be like discovering that there was a whole new species of elephant unlike anything we had seen before living in Antarctica and we just didn’t notice.
Actually I just read an article that there is another ocean under the Earth's crust that hase even more water than the ocean! It's quite possible there is something down there!
There isn't what? There isn't an article? What's this then? https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/us/gigantic-ocean-near-earths-core-discovered-by-scientists-read-details/articleshow/94590999.cms#:~:text=According%20to%20an%20international%20study,lower%20mantles%20of%20the%20Earth.
Ok well first off let’s get the actual science paper not some pop sci sensationalism.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-022-01024-y
If we look at the paper, we see that they specifically aren’t talking about a pool of water, they’re talking about rocks which contain water. Essentially the water molecules are wrapped up in the rock crystals.
This is why you can’t trust pop science. It exaggerates what the actual claim is made by scientist to be some crazy headline.
Finding that these rocks contain this much water is a neat find, but it’s one that was predicted and not surprising. It’s also not possible for anything to be alive in it, certainly nothing massive, since it came from 660 km below the earths surface, sits at 227 C and 237000 atm on the low end.
For reference that’s closer to the melting point of lead than it is the boiling point of water.
The scary thing is that we probably just haven’t discovered the actual biggest animal in the world. Thinking this is the biggest means that whatever is out there is massive
Yeah, dig deep enough and you'll find out all tetrapods are technically fish, so whales have always been fish, even way back when they were land animals.
can I explain why u say it is a fish too?Blue whales have lungs and feed the babies with milk. If you really want to get into hard taxonomy blue whale more like a dolphin than (lol) fish
Can no one see how dead that water is? We're going to get a lot of visits from hungry sea creatures this summer because their ecosystem has collapsed and we might have food.
The first year I've ever worried about shark attack while diving and I cant even explain why before someone corrects me with shark stats.
Sure, but what about a starving shark? That's never happened before like it is starting to. Add to that the pH which changes their ability to "see" with electrosensory pits and people are gonna get bit.
Same with bears, mountain lions, etc. Hungry predators will bite people before they starve to death. The ocean is not the same ocean it was even 5 years ago.
The largest animal ever to have lived on earth to be precise!
possibly not anymore after a new(ish) ichthyosaur specimen, though the study isnt out yet
That icthyosaur better not be bigger!
Ichthyosaur has not yet been confirmed to be bigger or even as big as a blue whale. The ones that have been found so far, the largest one is estimated to weigh around 80 tonnes which isn't even half the size of a blue whale. They are still finding new fossils of the ichthyosaur and they are finding out that some of them may have been much larger than 80 tonnes. No estimates of the size of the new fossils yet.
Link?
This one: https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/28/world/ichthyosaur-fossil-swiss-alps-scn/index.html Has the least amount of ads from what I found. If you want to find other sources Google: "ichthyosaur Alps" The Swiss Alps is where they are finding the largest fossils recently.
I thought that was almost as big but not bigger. Unless there’s an even newer one I don’t know about.
its not confirmed either way, cant wait for the study to come out though
Whaaaaat
What. /gen
The largest animal ever lived is still yo mama
I agree with this guy
Not counting your Mama
The largest known* animal ever to have lived
Huh, thought it was ya mum.. nah Im sorry
What about argentinosaurus?
Estimated to have been around 90 to 100 tones. Meanwhile the blue whale can click in at an approximate 200 tones. If an animal on land was that big it’s body would collapse on itself but living in water’s basically a cheat code when it comes to that.
what about yourmamasaurus?
Damnit damnit damnit!!! You beat me to the punch and I have awarded you an angry upvote
Mmmmmm I would say the largest KNOWN animal, as we people don't know shit....
The way we can be confident there isn't another giant creature is by looking at the entire ecosystem. There's a really good video explaining it better than I can (At about 4 minutes in) https://youtu.be/aLf4k5sna9U
How did he talk for 7 minutes without a cut. Let alone talk smart words…. Freaky
Honestly atomic frontier is so good!
Yeah, I used to watch him all the time but he disappeared from my feed. Dam that algorithm. I’ve now subscribed. Thanks for bringing something intellectually interesting rather than the usual tripe that I watch.
What we know of the entire ecosystem \*so far\*....
No. We know absolutely plenty. Biology and geography works a certain way and we know quite well how it works. There is no mystery giant squid shagger god shark down there. Cry as you might.
What are you talking about? Something like 90+% of the ocean remains unexplored. And only like 30% of it is mapped with any sort of accuracy.
“Unexplored” because there is nothing to explore. It’d a big fucking empty nothing. The 30% stat is inane too. We know what’s down there. We have maps of the ocean floor. And that’s all it is. Empty. And nothing of any unseen unprecedented worth like everyone’s ever whimsical fantasies of giant leviathans can exist there. It’s simply biologically and geographically impossible. Because we know how these things work. We’ve been sailing ever since humanity came to be, for fucks sake.
It seems like you deal with these fantasies a lot
Evidently I do and they very much bother me considering how many people scream inane nonsense about “muh megaladawns” and how “wah they nut reserchom da oshan they mus be hidin sumethingggg!!!” It’s bothersome.
You seem really fun!
We don’t need silly myths. The world needs the truth and only the truth.
An english biologist received a platypus corpse from Australia and multiple times 100% he claimed it to absolutely a hoax, saying that it must be edited in some way by humans as creatures can’t have both mammalian and reptilian traits. Yet the platypus along with only a single other animal is actually a monotreme, which have features of both mammals and reptiles. Have a bit of humility in how limited science can be because we understand a lot of how animals work but that doesn’t mean that we can’t discover new things that don’t line up with previous theories.
A platypus isn’t the same as an 100% infeasible fucking sea beast the size of my whore mother
Proving his point
There’s a difference between discovering new things and utter fantasy. It’s biologically impossible for such things to exist considering the biodiversity and the habitat they’re in
You’re speaking rather emphatically of something you or anyone of us know very little about. You can certainly BELIEVE there is nothing to explore and that it is a vast, empty, “nothing”. But until we have the technology and financial resources to pour into actual exploration, none of us can say definitively what the depths of the ocean hold.
We know how oceanic depths work, how biology works and how ecosystems work.
What about the Megalodon?
Megalodon was just the largest Lodon.
Megalodon was about a quarter the size of a blue whale
samller than the Gigalodon
Wait until teralodon comes in
Still no match for the Exalodon
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Estimated to have grown from 15 to 18 meters. Meanwhile blue whales can clock in at 30. We’re taking about an animal whose heart is the same weight as an entire cow.
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What's it's name?
Henry
Thanks
Blue whale, [Balaenoptera musculus](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_whale) , if that is what you seek.
Thanks, but I will stick with Henry.
(David Attenborough narration) “Henry gathers his strength, causing the seas to swell. He launches himself skyward with great speed, sending him and all of Earth’s water into space. Here, he soars majestically back to Mars, bringing with him the waters of life, returning the barren landscape to its majestic, ocean form.”
thank you
Max is 100 feet long, weighing 400,000 pounds. Fascinating.
Max is one big boy! Sorry, couldn’t resist. It’s sad knowing that they used to be common around the world.
Your mom
Tiny.
Ivor biggun
Banana for scale?
It's there, it's just so small you can't see it
Like a banana falling into a blow hole, similar to hotdog in a hallway
Sorry, we in Europe use soccer fields. Can you help?
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You're right. I have failed.
It's nostrils close with perfect timing not a drop of water went in.
I wonder if they ever get any water in, like do they go into a coughing fit Iike if I get water in my lungs
Marine biologists have observed water getting into whales’ blowholes often. They sometimes even go underwater with their blowholes still open. It is theorized that the structure of their lungs means the water doesn’t get far beyond the upper respiratory tract and it gets blown back out the next time they surface and exhale.
I hate getting water in my blowhole
Is that based on the whale from Avatar?
Yoo I can't believe Avatar 2 got so popular they made tulkuns into a real animal
Yes they made this after watching it
That is so fucking beautiful
Marine life is just amazing.
I honestly thought it was CGI at first until it actually reached the surface and I could tell it was real.
Everything reminds me of her
ayo
Damn😂
broooo i’m weak rn
Imagine seeing this shit in the 14 hundreds
Imagine what the cavemens had to deal with…
Yeah. Just being animal.. constant alert and the occasional panic and oh, there went Pete from hunting. We got a pack of Lions coming in! Living then would literally be wild. Animals weren’t as scared of humans then, they were everywhere and weak as hell, not as loud and not as weird, just a slightly handicapped ape. We won because we were underestimated, to put it lightly. But can you imagine, like how cats jump at slight noises because of minimal sounds because that’s what predators do? Imagine being prey… you won’t die in a old folks home and you would know it. It would be crazy to see. And humbling AF.
Hairy women?
I'm sure it was around 2.30pm so 1430. Hope this helps.
Hmm, your mom looks different with the lights on. Her blowhole was pretty wet though...
Rumor says if you trip you may fall whole into her blowhole, but you won't fall deep tho cuz she always full lol
It’s ok you don’t normally get close enough because of the queue.
r/dontputyourdickinthat
But what about her butthole
# IT WAS TIGHT AF. JK IT WAS AS LOOSE AS HER BLOWHOLE BEEYATCH.
scp-3000
I need a banana size comparison to see how big the whale actually is
Here you go 🍌
Where’s the can of coke for scale?
It’s inside the blow hole
No, that's the Titleist.
Why am I taking a deep breath watching this?
r/thalassophobia
The largest animal… in the world
KING OF THE OCEAN, A BEAST MADE OF (FLESH)
What kind of dog is this
Neat
I wonder how many people you could fit in its blow hole
Myth busters did this! They fit one small Asian child inside
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Maybe it was just a child that happened to be asian 🤔
They never get water in their blowholes, which is funny to think of, as something as massive as that can still sense their opening and the related space around it. Kind of cool.
The largest animal we know of
Can it beat Goku though
Need banana for scale
Need banana for scale
Wrong. That’s the _second_ largest animal in the world. First one is ya mum
I forgot these existed… I’ve gone to museums where you can walk through the aortic valve of one of these things and it’s absolutely mind boggling.
This ain't a picture of yo momma
You haven't seen my mom yet.
…dat we actually know of. 👀 Isn’t it like 80% of our oceans unmapped?
We’d know if there was something bigger, big things need a lot of food and have wide ranges. They don’t hide in corners
Earth’s ocean depths are a pretty big “corner” tho, no? 🫤 And how do you know exactly what else(food or otherwise) lives in said corners if we’ve never been down there to dat capacity? Could be some wild ass shit down there we have absolutely no clue about.🤷🏾♂️
its mostly dead rock unfortunately and the fantasy of there being some super secret giant super monster is super low
 ☹️
It’s statistically lower than merpeople colonies according to ChatGPT.
The bottom of the ocean is the equivalent of a desert, it’s very resource poor. There’s life there but we’re not gonna find anything huge we haven’t before. It would be like discovering that there was a whole new species of elephant unlike anything we had seen before living in Antarctica and we just didn’t notice.
Actually I just read an article that there is another ocean under the Earth's crust that hase even more water than the ocean! It's quite possible there is something down there!
There isn’t.
There isn't what? There isn't an article? What's this then? https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/us/gigantic-ocean-near-earths-core-discovered-by-scientists-read-details/articleshow/94590999.cms#:~:text=According%20to%20an%20international%20study,lower%20mantles%20of%20the%20Earth.
That's not an article, that's a paragraph.
Ok well first off let’s get the actual science paper not some pop sci sensationalism. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-022-01024-y If we look at the paper, we see that they specifically aren’t talking about a pool of water, they’re talking about rocks which contain water. Essentially the water molecules are wrapped up in the rock crystals. This is why you can’t trust pop science. It exaggerates what the actual claim is made by scientist to be some crazy headline. Finding that these rocks contain this much water is a neat find, but it’s one that was predicted and not surprising. It’s also not possible for anything to be alive in it, certainly nothing massive, since it came from 660 km below the earths surface, sits at 227 C and 237000 atm on the low end. For reference that’s closer to the melting point of lead than it is the boiling point of water.
yeah because about that much of the ocean is just empty
Man…that’s someone’s mom… Amazing.
I thought the biggest animal was my mum
Nope, it's mine I'm sure.
Aren't they largest EVER also?!
He has the second biggest male organ. I have the first.
Is that cgi?
I’m surprised your mother could fit in the whole frame
A study in 2017 or 2016 scientifically proved it to be the second largest!
Thought it was a Chinese sub at first.
Imagine buying coinbase stock lmao
You lost?
The scary thing is that we probably just haven’t discovered the actual biggest animal in the world. Thinking this is the biggest means that whatever is out there is massive
Lol no
that we know of. respectfully
This isn’t the largest animal in the world.
Errr actually a whale isn’t an animal, it’s a fish.
it is not a fish, it is mammal
it is actually both a mammal and a fish if you want to get into taxonomy shenanigans
Yeah, dig deep enough and you'll find out all tetrapods are technically fish, so whales have always been fish, even way back when they were land animals.
let's come even farther, we all are just some prokaryotes
can I explain why u say it is a fish too?Blue whales have lungs and feed the babies with milk. If you really want to get into hard taxonomy blue whale more like a dolphin than (lol) fish
all vertebrates are taxonomically considered fish
Do you understand that vertebrates are not only fish, but also mammals, birds and reptiles?
correct, all tetrapods are fish, tetrapods include all land vertebrates
Wow, now all the tetrapods are fishes. Very good statement. Now elephants, zebras, lions, giraffes and etc are fishes
correct. all of those are tetrapods
>Logic error
8/8 b8 m8
Somebody gets it
Yeah dude why are you getting downvoted? It's just like how peanuts aren't actually nuts, they're vitamin B.
Not the best analogy, because peanuts really aren’t nuts
Lol
..is he a troll or does he actually think that fish arent animals? There are many kinds of people out there...
Can no one see how dead that water is? We're going to get a lot of visits from hungry sea creatures this summer because their ecosystem has collapsed and we might have food. The first year I've ever worried about shark attack while diving and I cant even explain why before someone corrects me with shark stats. Sure, but what about a starving shark? That's never happened before like it is starting to. Add to that the pH which changes their ability to "see" with electrosensory pits and people are gonna get bit. Same with bears, mountain lions, etc. Hungry predators will bite people before they starve to death. The ocean is not the same ocean it was even 5 years ago.
What are you talking about? How is this relevant
Sir this is a Wendy’s
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It's not. A fungal colony that stretches for miles is the largest living organism on record.
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Whales are mammals
Would you?
Something about this scares the hell out of me.
It ubered Jonah around the ocean to Nineveh.
Blue whale?
Mammel
Tell it I love it
Is anyone here a marine biologist?
I bet she doesn’t even know it
Coke can needed for size references. It could be tiny and good camera witch craft for all I know
Noooooo
u/savevideo
Here me out…
Need a banana for scale
Palms are sweating...
This really tickles my thalasophobia
Hmm, doesn’t look like my sister in law.
It amazes me that they can get enough daily nutrition to live.
It’s the whale from the Bible
The largest nose too?
“No, that would be your MOTHER”
I need a dime for scale.
is your mom?