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They say in ancient Greek times the seas were thick with whales everywhere

The reason people wrote about whales so much back then was b...
offensive histrionic dilemma
  01/06/26
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Swashbuckling Hell
  01/06/26
I want to know more.
Multi-colored disrespectful plaza
  01/06/26
You chose the wrong retard to get information from, he makes...
Adventurous Chest-beating Library Legal Warrant
  01/06/26
So archaeological sites all over the world show populations ...
offensive histrionic dilemma
  01/06/26
as i understand it, scientists use DNA diversity in the vari...
wild potus theatre
  01/06/26
Scientists had to even apologize to Ol' Pliny.
Jet-lagged crawly mood trump supporter
  01/06/26
tp.
nighttime hall love of her life
  01/06/26
The wine-dark seas were different
Sepia Demanding Tanning Salon
  01/06/26
the wine-dark seas were angry, my friend.
wild potus theatre
  01/06/26


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Date: January 6th, 2026 7:10 PM
Author: offensive histrionic dilemma

The reason people wrote about whales so much back then was because you couldn't get away from them. Nothing like commercial fishing was even possible because whales ate all the fish and rammed your boat, so these vikings and Englishmen were just eating herring that spend half their lives in shallow waters near the shore. They say when we started commercial whaling we nuked the population by like 99.999% and now it's still way less than 1% what it was back then

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Date: January 6th, 2026 7:11 PM
Author: Swashbuckling Hell



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Date: January 6th, 2026 7:46 PM
Author: Multi-colored disrespectful plaza

I want to know more.

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Date: January 6th, 2026 7:48 PM
Author: Adventurous Chest-beating Library Legal Warrant

You chose the wrong retard to get information from, he makes a lot of it up

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Date: January 6th, 2026 8:06 PM
Author: offensive histrionic dilemma

So archaeological sites all over the world show populations with strong reliance on whale oil and whale meat. There are so many whale bones at these sites that people had to have been hunting them all the time. We find this shit in oddball places like Korea and Scotland. Just everywhere.

There are also cave paintings of whales.

There are innumerable accounts of ancient sailors coming across huge pods of whales. Pliny the Elder seemed to know a fuckload about whales. Seemed to think they were tons of them out there.

What's hard to find is any evidence that whales were scarce. As far as I know, no one ever claimed they were hard to find.

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Date: January 6th, 2026 8:11 PM
Author: wild potus theatre

as i understand it, scientists use DNA diversity in the various whale species to estimate prior number which, as you note, were massively larger.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5818118&forum_id=2#49567792)



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Date: January 6th, 2026 8:26 PM
Author: Jet-lagged crawly mood trump supporter

Scientists had to even apologize to Ol' Pliny.

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Date: January 6th, 2026 7:49 PM
Author: nighttime hall love of her life

tp.

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Date: January 6th, 2026 8:27 PM
Author: Sepia Demanding Tanning Salon

The wine-dark seas were different

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Date: January 6th, 2026 8:52 PM
Author: wild potus theatre

the wine-dark seas were angry, my friend.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5818118&forum_id=2#49567887)