The biggest creatures in the sea are big, but surprising new research shows they’re not quite as big as we thought.
Maybe that’s not surprising, since it’s difficult to get accurate dimensions for whale sharks, giant squid, and other “marine megafauna” because they can be hard to find and even harder to weigh and measure once you find them.
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A paper describing the research was published in the journal PeerJ on Jan. 13, 2015.
