I greatly doubt that the blue whale is the largest animal to ever exist and i despise how scientists of authority state that it is with such certainty
>>5004175 (OP)what do you propose to be larger?
>>5004178some dinosaur or some other aquatic being.
less than 1% of species to have ever existed have a member become fossilized. It's crazy how biologists just declared the blue whale is the largest
>>5004175 (OP)If you think there's a bigger animal you're free to present it to the class nigga
>>5004175 (OP)Just prove them wrong then?
>>5004181I mean it's the largest based on available fossil records. When you dig up this anon's mom
>>5004178perhaps you'll be able to refute them. Until then, the blue whale is preeeeeeetty big man
I would follow the lead of Roger Tory Peterson.
Many writers or reporters wrote of Archaeopteryx as "the first Bird". In his writing for "The Birds" volume of the "Life Nature Library" in the 1960's, he wrote of the Archeopteryx as the "Earliest known Bird".
With the "earliest known" qualifier, it marks it as correct at the time, while acknowledging that it is subject to change.
With a bit of added contemporary reference, we probably should label the Blue Whale as "the largest animal currently known to have lived".
>>5004181Because "the largest animal to have ever existed apart from some purely theoretical animal which we dont have a shred of evidence for the existence of but might have existed at some point maybe somewhere" is too long.
That, and is also retarded.
>>5004175 (OP)There could be giant creatures under the ocean and we wouldn't know it. 80% of the ocean is unexplored.