complete crock o'****... the diver is OBVIOUSLY >3m to the right... get some perspective.
if they have only been around for a couple of thousand years, what were they 2500 years ago?
and does evolution change things that fast? 5 years? amazing.
might want to check the time frame though. 500 years seems a little quick for plankton to evolve into a whale shark
These last few posts by Japie has just made my brain melt with it's amount of retardation
"Whale sharks have only been around for a couple of thousand years"
Uhhm....no sure if serious or taking the piss.
The whale shark is estimated to have been around in it's current form for over 60 million years...which is basically just after the mass extinction of the dinosaurs.
No libation, am on a sabatical.
It was an attempt at cutting sarcasm. Sorry it was not more tranparent.
The abject depths of ignorance constantly on display courtesy of our journalistic friends who insist on featuring articles such as the one featured make me want to puke.
Unfortunately it would appear that the majority of the population will view an article like that and go away thinking that the diver was lucky not to have been swallowed by a relic from the past whose ancestors evolved over millions of years while feeding on plankton.
People who write articles like that should stick to producing superman comics and drawing with crayons.
See what you make of this, it is a pretty good example of the behaviour that drives folk to emmigrate:
Jee Zus!
It's a feckin' filler article designed to take some space and give people a bit of light reading and say "whoa man!" while giving the website somewhere to hang some advertising. It's NOT meant to be a feckin' academic treatise on the feeding habit of West Australian Lesser Spotted Whale feckin' Shark during the feckin' winter season! And that video that flysurfer put up is not even in the same country, never mind the same event.
Fer chrissake, if anyone should get some perspective it'd be you two.
@someotherguy: here some perspective for you: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideation(idea_generation)
Ideation is the creative process of generating, developing, and communicating new ideas, where an idea is understood as a basic element of thought that can be either visual, concrete, or abstract.[1] Ideation is all stages of a thought cycle, from innovation, to development, to actualization.[2] As such, it is an essential part of the design process, both in education and practice.
I have spent a fair few hours swimming with those wonderful fish of the ningaloo coast.
Didn't look near to swallowing the diver to me.