whale shark | Boneblogger: Science and the outdoors https://boneblogger.com Exploring the natural world Fri, 11 Jun 2010 22:03:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 The large consume the small https://boneblogger.com/the-large-consume-the-small/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-large-consume-the-small Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:16:38 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=74 It is an interesting paradox of the natural world that some of the largest species alive survive by eating some of the smallest species. Consider the largest animal ever known to have existed. No, it is not a dinosaur, but an animal alive today, the blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus. This behemoth can grow to over […]

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