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ceejayoz on Dec 31, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Warren Buffett is spending billions to make Iowa '...

That's also not how evolution works.

Some whale species live in excess of 200 years. They've only had a generation or two; evolution doesn't happen that fast.

We found a living whale a few years back with a harpoon stuck in it from the 1800s. https://www.foxnews.com/story/nineteenth-century-harpoon-fou...

riffraff on Dec 31, 2019 [–]

I am no animal rights fundamentalist, but I found that new item so depressing, it sounds like "we found this awesome >130yo whale, which survived a hunt in 1890. Well it didn't survive this one, the sucker."

ceejayoz on Dec 31, 2019 | [–]

Yeah, I also found that to be very sad, especially given how smart whales are. "Not these assholes again!"

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