The King of the Beasts

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So, what’s the “king of the beasts?” The blue whale! It’s a king-sized beast, weighing in at two hundred thousand pounds. And being that big requires some unique design features.

Blue whales eat four tons of food every day. And eating requires swallowing and filtering huge amounts of water. As blue whales lunge at a patch of krill, the water forces their mouth to open ninety degrees. But how can they close their mouth against the force of so much water? Well, a special structure in their jaw helps them do just that.

All these features were designed, there’s no way they evolved.

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