LAFAYETTE, La., June 15 -- The University of Louisiana at Lafayette issued the following news release:
Weighing up to 165 tons, blue whales are the largest animals in Earth's history, more than double the size of Titanosaurs, its biggest dinosaurs. A study by Dr. Craig McClain, a professor in the Ray P. Authement College of Sciences' School of Biological Sciences, and Stanford University researchers indicates why blue whales grow so large.
Study results, which were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences academic journal, are based on a comparison of almost 7,000 living animals and fossils to examine variables that impact size. The findings also point to why marine animals, in general, are much bigger than the b...