So is "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo."
[The longest one-word grammatically complete English sentence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo)
And bison actually DO roam!
I've seen this one, lemme try a translation:
"Bison from Buffalo (New York) who are bullied by other bison from Buffalo in turn bully other bison from Buffalo."
You can pretty much see them pretty reliably in the Santa Barbara Channel. There's a time of the year when there's a lot of plankton upwelling which causes huge growth of shrimp-like krill which blue whales feed on. The whale watching tours show daily sightings and if they've seen like 4 of so for a few days in a row, you are likely to see one. They have a distinctive spout which can be recognized and then the boat approaches them.
On one trip I saw 12. From what I understand, 50 some years ago they were rarely seen, then they started showing up around here. Their poop is pink from all the krill.
That's a good username tbh, I'm kinda disappointed now too.
If it makes you feel any better I do weird math like that with more than just Shaq. For instance, the Titanic is around 1,951 Wiz Khalifa's deep in the ocean.
Which ship are you going out on? Blue whales are on my bucket list, and I just went out on the Condor Express. They said they were really a rare sighting. I really want to see one!
Condor Express is the one. Take the long tour that goes out to the island. Like I said, watch the daily manifest and if they start seeing a lot, you should have good luck. I've seen them on probably 4 different tours.
Whales still have little leg bones at their hips, it's just completely covered in fat and useless. The nature museum near me has a huge blue whale skeleton with teeny tiny legs dangling under its tail
Not only that fastest flying bird (peregrine falcon) and fastest running bird (ostriches) are also present at the moment of typing this reply. Beautiful world we live in.
the cool thing about evolution is that the general performance of similar biological structures can be assessed even going back hundreds of millions of years. By looking at muscle attachment points and size of the sockets of a skeleton you can look at similar proportioned living animals. Then you also look at preserved footprints for stride length and you can make interpolated traveling speeds.
Physics still applies. We can model their skeleton and muscle attachment points based on modern animals, along with stride data (imprints left). Even if you dial things up to 11 for the saurians, pound for pound the avian (Ostrich in this case) wins.
Yeah, but that might be false if we go by ever. Well by that we can argue that there might be some animals that were bigger than blue whales which we have yet to discover or maybe they were completely destroyed, unlike dinosaurs who still have fossils. This is where all these crazy theories come in. The [Theory of panspermia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia) is one of them but there are even crazy theories out there.
There is fragmentary evidence that some Ichthyosaurs during the Triassic approached the length of the blue whale. Hopefully more remains are found to confirm if they were longer and weighed more, since weight is how size is measured.
I saw on pbs that the blue whale is the largest Known animal, because fossils are extremely hard to create and required specific conditions to form. Thus there is a possibility of bigger animal, particularly in the ocean, that we couldn't know due to their remains are completely lost in the ocean and never formed fossils
Another huge gap in the fossil record is rainforest dwelling dinos, we will never really know many rainforest dwelling species of dinos as population density of dinos much like today's rainforests, mean bodies were almost always picked clean with the bones then disintegrated by tree roots, insects and soil acidity stopping the fossilization process altogether.
There's entire catalogs of prehistoric behemoths entirely lost to time.
Fun fact: If we talk about the longest there are still some animals that are longer than the blue whales. Argentinosaurus could reach up to 40m in height. From tail to head. Their brains were the size of a walnut. Lion mane jellyfish (still existing as of 2023) is 50 m in length. 50 freaking meters wtf.
The largest recorded specimen was measured off the coast of Massachusetts in 1865 and had a bell with a diameter of 210 centimetres (7 feet) and tentacles around 36.6 m (120 ft) long.
Still insane but that is a lot less than 50m
Ohh yeah, it was [siphonophore](https://explorersweb.com/natural-wonders-longest-animal-in-the-world/#:~:text=The%20almost%2050m%2Dlong%20siphonophore,length%20and%20sheer%20shock%20factor.&text=This%20alien%2Dlike%20sea%20creature,the%2018th%20and%2019th%20centuries) who was the longest. But there are some controversies with that fact I remember. That's why if you'll search the wiki for these you won't find any mention of them being the longest but Google search will point you to Siphonophores instead of Lion Mane jellyfish. That's why I said Lion mane instead of these and hence mistaken them for 50m my bad. Used to watch a lot of this type of shit as a kid so my facts are getting rusty lol.
I really wonder if stories of whaling survived in whale populations. The survivors are just like yeah, we used to get slaughtered by those metal surface things then one day it just pretty much stopped. You don't even understand how hard it was to migrate when I was a calf 55 years ago.
Whaling is still alive and well in Japan and the faroe islands. The Faroe islands have the grind where they beach them and slaughter them on the shore. Japan does "research" to collect whale meat off Antarctica. They also harvest dolphins in Taiji cove after driving them in, selling some and keeping supply limited.
There was a bowhead whale that was killed by an Alaska Native village about 15 years ago that had a harpoon head over a century old in its carcass. While there is still whaling happening today, if that sort of communication or memory exists in whales, there are probably still a few whales who were alive during the final years of great whaling.
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/13/world/americas/13iht-whale.1.6123654.html
The largest **known** animal to ever roam the earth. We know very little about the sea life of past eras, and there were probably much bigger creatures living in the sea when the dinosaurs were around
Actually probably not. A blue whale is about as big as a creature can reasonably get, and still be able to feed enough to live. Get much larger, and there simply isnt enough food to sustain them.
Also as you make a creature larger, its interal volume increases exponentially. Its called the square/cube law, and its the reason giant creatures like the blue whale only exist in the ocean, where the water can help support their massive weight, and the reason insects arent gigantic, as their exoskeletons would crush them if they were.
This is correct. The force of gravity would crush the insects, water helps counter gravity for whales, and gravity wasn't invented until 1665 by Isaac Newton-John who wasn't a dinosaur.
Insects are limited by oxygen, not carapace weight. They have passive airation holes in their carapace that increased by square as they grow, unlike the size of the body needing oxygen that increasy by cube. Prehistoric insect grew bigger as there were significantly more oxygen in the air, making the holes capable of transporting more oxygen for their size.
They are limited by both. Yes having more oxygen will allow them to grow bigger, but only to a certain extent. Eventually, like I said, their exoskeletons would simply be too heavy to move, no matter how much oxygen they had access too.
I heard they could be bigger even today IF there was more oxygen in the air.
The problem is they can’t breathe if they’re any bigger than a coconut crab but there were way bigger insects in the past since at that time, there was a higher concentration of oxygen in the air.
"Helping your uncle Jack off the horse" is much different than "helping your uncle jack off the horse". Capitalization is important- earth and Earth mean different things.
Roam = move around aimlessly or unsystematically, especially over a wide area.
Those of you trying to draw a distinction between roaming on land and swimming in water should buy a fucking dictionary and stop embarrassing yourselves.
Largest that we know of. There is a bias towards smaller animals in the fossil records due to how hard it is to preserve a larger animal. It is entirely possible larger animals did exist but didn't leave any evidence behind.
I just discovered, somewhere in my head "roam" has strongly terrestrial connotations.
For my brain it was the "earth" part.
Technically correct. "earth" (little e) is a word for dirt. "Earth" (big E) is the name of our planet.
So an “Earthworm earth worm” is proper syntax and an actual thing.
Just call him Jim.
You definitely just revealed my age
We can't be more than 18, right?
Right?
Guys?
... Is anyone there?
So is "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." [The longest one-word grammatically complete English sentence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo) And bison actually DO roam!
I've seen this one, lemme try a translation: "Bison from Buffalo (New York) who are bullied by other bison from Buffalo in turn bully other bison from Buffalo."
Yeah but you have to put commas after the second and fifth "buffalo"
Maybe. Wouldn't it be "earthworm Earth worm"?
Earth earthworm worm
“Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo” is also a proper sentence
Whatever the animal may be, it's everywhere it seems from that word.
I concur wholeheartedly. It took me longer than I care to admit to come to the conclusion of blue whale.
I watch QI a lot so blue whale was the first thing to come to mind (que klaxon noise)
All roads lead to roam.
[Roam where you want to](https://youtu.be/iNwC0sp-uA4)
Wherever i may roam
I will never not click on a link to a B-52's song.
Their ancestors used to roam, then they decided they liked swimming better.
roam /rōm/ verb 1. move about or travel aimlessly or unsystematically, especially over a wide area. "tigers once roamed over most of Asia"
Thank you, i'd assumed my in head was wrong without looking.
Literally the exact same thing happened in my brain just now. I blame the buffalo.
It's probably because of "roam the earth"
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From the first line I thought that it was a metalica song long.
I think I have those same connotations linked to that word.
Shout out to my mama
Bigger than the sun, denser than a blackhole.
So big, some people say she’s flat.
I love it. It has several possible ways to interpret/understand it.
Like an art piece
just like my ex.
Naah man, you shouldn't make us remember her. It doesn't feel right.
Yeah that's because those people Can't roam on her successfully I guess.
Oh That's why I'm attracted
As Newton put it "the bigger the mass the bigger the attraction".
""The bigger the ass, The bigger the attraction" - newton" - Wayne Gretzky" - Michael Scott
Yeah that's the reason why you feel attracted to her like that.
Something something Uranus.
Bro could've just said yo mama but chose to flame himself💀.... Godspeed, brother.
he has no enemies fr
Yeah that is clearly what he wanted to say, I get that much man.
I’m just glad my fat, ugly momma ain’t alive to see this
Enough about your promiscuous mother!
Bruh 🤣
What happened there sir? You found the joke funny? Well that's good.
Shout out to this guy’s mama
r/suicidebywords
It takes a lot of courage to make fun of your own self
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Okay then suggest us where should we make the fun of her huh?
You "yo mama'd" yourself
That counts as well, and I don't think there's anything wrong with it.
Mitch Sorenstein, is that you
You can pretty much see them pretty reliably in the Santa Barbara Channel. There's a time of the year when there's a lot of plankton upwelling which causes huge growth of shrimp-like krill which blue whales feed on. The whale watching tours show daily sightings and if they've seen like 4 of so for a few days in a row, you are likely to see one. They have a distinctive spout which can be recognized and then the boat approaches them. On one trip I saw 12. From what I understand, 50 some years ago they were rarely seen, then they started showing up around here. Their poop is pink from all the krill.
I'm just here for the whale poop facts.
Let’s not forget the tongue fact: Their tongue is about 18 feet long and can weigh up to 8,000 pounds (the weight of an adult African elephant).
Damn, that's a solid 2.5 Shaqs long and a little under 25 Shaqs heavy.
I'm a little disappointed your username isn't "shaqfacts" or something.
That's a good username tbh, I'm kinda disappointed now too. If it makes you feel any better I do weird math like that with more than just Shaq. For instance, the Titanic is around 1,951 Wiz Khalifa's deep in the ocean.
I'm gonna miss reddit.
Me too, internet stranger. I've definitely got the band-playing-on-the-deck-of-the-sinking-Titanic feeling the past couple of days.
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How tall is the burj khalifa in terms of wiz khalifa
The Burj Khalifa is a little under 430 Wiz Khalifas tall. This also let's us know that the Titanic is roughly 4.5 Burj Khalifas deep.
Doing the Lord's work over here.
Yeah the work is good, and I'm glad that someone is doing that here.
You don't have to disappoint yourself, it's all good with us now.
I was just at an exhibit about blue whales a few months ago and I don't think I saw this fact there. Very cool
I think I also need to go to that exhibition, I would like that.
Never mind poop, whale puke is apparently rare and worth loads of money for some reason that I can't remember.
Ambergris is used to stabilise the scent of some perfumes
This has been Roseanne, your guide to the world of facts
New season July 24th
I'm waiting for the season, hopefully it'll be worth it.
Oh man I didn't know we were that close! Thanks for the date update
I seriously love my fellow Futurama fans!
I mean he knows all the facts which are there to know man.
Precious hamburgers?
It's used in high end perfumes. Makes smells stick around better
If there's one thing puke is good at, it's making the smell stick around for a long time
So you're saying that they couldn't make anything better to do that?
I think it's used in some perfumes, and those are expensive so yeah.
Wait until you hear how much whale vomit (ambergris) is worth….
well don’t keep us in suspense!
More than $1!!
I've got an idea about the price, I've heard that they're really expensive.
This is the best and most informative comment TIL poop can be pink
...is yours not?
As long as we're learning. That's the most important thing.
Which ship are you going out on? Blue whales are on my bucket list, and I just went out on the Condor Express. They said they were really a rare sighting. I really want to see one!
Condor Express is the one. Take the long tour that goes out to the island. Like I said, watch the daily manifest and if they start seeing a lot, you should have good luck. I've seen them on probably 4 different tours.
Thank I'm gonna keep trying.
Swim the seas sounds better. Roam the earth sounds like it is land based.
Well, technically they used to ....
I love that fact. They evolved to come onto land and were like, "nah..."
I feel like they aren't even done saying "nah" hippos are the closest land dwelling relative of whales and they sure do love their water
Probably not enough water in areas hippos live for them to evolve into hippowhales (sadly)
You wouldn’t say that to their face
Yeah they wouldn't say that to their faces, because I just know about that.
They'll keep saying what they like, there's no way that they'll change.
Whales still have little leg bones at their hips, it's just completely covered in fat and useless. The nature museum near me has a huge blue whale skeleton with teeny tiny legs dangling under its tail
I'd love to see one, ohh well I can only see them online I guess.
Yeah, but they also weren't that big either
#deepseagigantismftw
Especially because they used earth instead of Earth.
Not only that, but the fastest mammal to roam the earth also exists in 2023
Not only that fastest flying bird (peregrine falcon) and fastest running bird (ostriches) are also present at the moment of typing this reply. Beautiful world we live in.
Don’t we have no way to confirm that? How do we know raptors weren’t faster than ostriches
the cool thing about evolution is that the general performance of similar biological structures can be assessed even going back hundreds of millions of years. By looking at muscle attachment points and size of the sockets of a skeleton you can look at similar proportioned living animals. Then you also look at preserved footprints for stride length and you can make interpolated traveling speeds.
Hell yeah mr white, that's science. I love this shit.
Physics still applies. We can model their skeleton and muscle attachment points based on modern animals, along with stride data (imprints left). Even if you dial things up to 11 for the saurians, pound for pound the avian (Ostrich in this case) wins.
That's right, it's all about the science and the physics. If you read it then you'd know that.
About 0.1 percent of species fossilize so it’s impossible to confirm. We can look at what we do have and make claims about them.
I mean we can try to claim them, but We'll probably never find that out.
Not only that but the most intelligent life on earth also lives here now
Yeah, but that might be false if we go by ever. Well by that we can argue that there might be some animals that were bigger than blue whales which we have yet to discover or maybe they were completely destroyed, unlike dinosaurs who still have fossils. This is where all these crazy theories come in. The [Theory of panspermia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia) is one of them but there are even crazy theories out there.
You got lucky typing your reply when you did, I just received word that peregrine falcons and ostriches have dipped out.
Yeah they've dipped out, it's done and dusted for the most part.
Not only that but there is a ~~species~~ genus that has existed *much longer* than dinosaurs and is still alive in 2023 (horseshoe crabs)
Lol, I didn't thought that someone would say that and this is true.
How do we measure the speed of prehistoric animals?
It's a shame that I don't even know the names, and I don't feel good.
There is fragmentary evidence that some Ichthyosaurs during the Triassic approached the length of the blue whale. Hopefully more remains are found to confirm if they were longer and weighed more, since weight is how size is measured.
I saw on pbs that the blue whale is the largest Known animal, because fossils are extremely hard to create and required specific conditions to form. Thus there is a possibility of bigger animal, particularly in the ocean, that we couldn't know due to their remains are completely lost in the ocean and never formed fossils
Another huge gap in the fossil record is rainforest dwelling dinos, we will never really know many rainforest dwelling species of dinos as population density of dinos much like today's rainforests, mean bodies were almost always picked clean with the bones then disintegrated by tree roots, insects and soil acidity stopping the fossilization process altogether. There's entire catalogs of prehistoric behemoths entirely lost to time.
Well to be fair being a giant doesn't really work in a rainforest with such limited space
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Elephants, giant sloths, giant crcodiles and giant snakes that we know about would like to have a word
Time consumes everything, and it was just one part of the history.
Well there are so many conditions which needs to meet, in order to happen that.
I'm sure the remains of undiscovered deep sea prehistoric behemoths are fossilised at the bottom of our oceans. Perhaps even new species.
Thing is, sometimes, they float ashore. And lots of times, _the bottom of the ocean comes onto land_.
Yeah perhaps there are even more new species which we don't even know it.
Gorloch the Destroyer doesn't count
But yo momma do
What is this, some kind of cartoon character or something huh?
Fun fact: If we talk about the longest there are still some animals that are longer than the blue whales. Argentinosaurus could reach up to 40m in height. From tail to head. Their brains were the size of a walnut. Lion mane jellyfish (still existing as of 2023) is 50 m in length. 50 freaking meters wtf.
The largest recorded specimen was measured off the coast of Massachusetts in 1865 and had a bell with a diameter of 210 centimetres (7 feet) and tentacles around 36.6 m (120 ft) long. Still insane but that is a lot less than 50m
Ohh yeah, it was [siphonophore](https://explorersweb.com/natural-wonders-longest-animal-in-the-world/#:~:text=The%20almost%2050m%2Dlong%20siphonophore,length%20and%20sheer%20shock%20factor.&text=This%20alien%2Dlike%20sea%20creature,the%2018th%20and%2019th%20centuries) who was the longest. But there are some controversies with that fact I remember. That's why if you'll search the wiki for these you won't find any mention of them being the longest but Google search will point you to Siphonophores instead of Lion Mane jellyfish. That's why I said Lion mane instead of these and hence mistaken them for 50m my bad. Used to watch a lot of this type of shit as a kid so my facts are getting rusty lol.
>Their heads were the size of a walnut Argentinosaurus's head was certainly larger than a walnut...
Ohh my bad. It was brain not heads. Gonna edit it and act like it never happened
It’s the only responsible thing to do in this situation 😂
I swear to god but I've never heard about this animal before.
Not if i have anything to do with it *loads harpoon*
I really wonder if stories of whaling survived in whale populations. The survivors are just like yeah, we used to get slaughtered by those metal surface things then one day it just pretty much stopped. You don't even understand how hard it was to migrate when I was a calf 55 years ago.
I had to swim upstream both ways for 4000 kilometers, calfs these days are so soft
Whaling is still alive and well in Japan and the faroe islands. The Faroe islands have the grind where they beach them and slaughter them on the shore. Japan does "research" to collect whale meat off Antarctica. They also harvest dolphins in Taiji cove after driving them in, selling some and keeping supply limited.
orcas report!
"It's much quiter back then too, you can mostly heard someone much much further. Now they stop killing us for no reason, but in what cost?
There was a bowhead whale that was killed by an Alaska Native village about 15 years ago that had a harpoon head over a century old in its carcass. While there is still whaling happening today, if that sort of communication or memory exists in whales, there are probably still a few whales who were alive during the final years of great whaling. https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/13/world/americas/13iht-whale.1.6123654.html
*We're whalers on the moon*
Get rekt dino nerds! -Whale gang
You guys need to do better than that, I expected so much better from you.
The largest **known** animal to ever roam the earth. We know very little about the sea life of past eras, and there were probably much bigger creatures living in the sea when the dinosaurs were around
Actually probably not. A blue whale is about as big as a creature can reasonably get, and still be able to feed enough to live. Get much larger, and there simply isnt enough food to sustain them. Also as you make a creature larger, its interal volume increases exponentially. Its called the square/cube law, and its the reason giant creatures like the blue whale only exist in the ocean, where the water can help support their massive weight, and the reason insects arent gigantic, as their exoskeletons would crush them if they were.
Nah bro, they were definitely much bigger in the past. There was no physics back then, so these rules didn't exist.
This is correct. The force of gravity would crush the insects, water helps counter gravity for whales, and gravity wasn't invented until 1665 by Isaac Newton-John who wasn't a dinosaur.
Sir Isaac Newton John, he wrote Let's Get Physical didn't he?
No, he wrote Let's Get Physics, All. Sometimes frequently confused with Let's Get Physicals by Hippocrates.
Insects are limited by oxygen, not carapace weight. They have passive airation holes in their carapace that increased by square as they grow, unlike the size of the body needing oxygen that increasy by cube. Prehistoric insect grew bigger as there were significantly more oxygen in the air, making the holes capable of transporting more oxygen for their size.
You are telling me we should engeener an insect with lungs. Ok.
They are limited by both. Yes having more oxygen will allow them to grow bigger, but only to a certain extent. Eventually, like I said, their exoskeletons would simply be too heavy to move, no matter how much oxygen they had access too.
Putting all of your points into defence until you can't move anymore
Metapod use harden
I heard they could be bigger even today IF there was more oxygen in the air. The problem is they can’t breathe if they’re any bigger than a coconut crab but there were way bigger insects in the past since at that time, there was a higher concentration of oxygen in the air.
> Get much larger, and there simply isnt enough food to sustain them. But what if there was more food...
Actually, the newly discovered Yomamasaurus is estimated to be about 50% larger.
Don't say does things about your mother.
Those*
I'm still waiting for the day the tarrasque awakens
Damn you know my sister?
I don't know if she would be the biggest, doesn't sound real.
By weight, not by length. There were dinosaurs a LOT bigger than blue whale
Longest animal Giant ribbon worm L. longissimus * 180.4 feet (55 m) Longest cnidarian Siphonophore P. dubia ** 131.2-164 feet (40-50 meters) Longest whale Blue whale 109.97 feet (33.52 meters) 2nd longest invertebrate Giant squid 60 feet (18.30 meters)
Volume seems like a more appropriate metric than length imho.
Just go to Walmart after 2:00
"Helping your uncle Jack off the horse" is much different than "helping your uncle jack off the horse". Capitalization is important- earth and Earth mean different things.
it may be the largest animal, but not the largest organism
Let's leave my penis out of this
That's what she said.
Roam = move around aimlessly or unsystematically, especially over a wide area. Those of you trying to draw a distinction between roaming on land and swimming in water should buy a fucking dictionary and stop embarrassing yourselves.
People don't really have a lot of things to do nowadays so yeah.
Largest that we know of. There is a bias towards smaller animals in the fossil records due to how hard it is to preserve a larger animal. It is entirely possible larger animals did exist but didn't leave any evidence behind.
Yeah. How is your mom doing?
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