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dot com and secure your seats today it's friday january 20th 20th 20. I'm Jackson Bird today. How did whales get so big anyways?

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I finally watched Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio the other night, the new dark stop motion

adaptation of the classic Italian story that is sweeping the animation categories at all the

award shows right now.

And for good reason, it is a seriously impressive feat of animation, but also a really effective

story, with a decent amount of creepiness, as you'd expect from Del Toro.

I did a longer segment on this dark adaptation and the history of Pinocchio last summer,

so link in the show notes if you want to listen back.

But one particular scene that struck me was when some of the characters get swallowed by a giant whale-like sea monster.

Now, I am aware that whales are big and that this was a fictional representation

of a fictional type of sea monster. So accurate proportions were not exactly what they were going for

here, but it still blew my mind how cavernous the inside of that sea monster's belly was. A whole ship, and even in this

case a lighthouse, were inside of it with plenty of room to spare. And, you know, animation and fantasy

aside, it just got my mind on a tangent about how inconceivably huge real whales are. Blue whales specifically aren't just the biggest animals on earth

right now. They're the biggest animals that have ever been on earth that we know of. Blue whales can

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