Why sea-faring mammals need to be larger than land lubbers
Tuesday, March 19, 2013 - 07:31
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org) —Ever notice you get cold faster when you're wet? That's why whales are so much bigger than elephants, according to SFI External Professor Aaron Clauset in a recent paper published in the journal PLoS One that examines what might have caused mammalian species to evolve to the sizes they did.