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But Dr Braddy thinks the large scales may have had a lot to do with the absence early on of vertebrate predators. As they came on the scene, these animals would have eaten all the biggest prey specimens.
"The fact that you are big means you are more likely to be seen and to be taken for a tastier morsel," he told BBC News. "Evolution will not select for large size; you want to be small so you can hide away."
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wee sleekit beasties such as yersen will be cushtie
If it lurks in the sea my wife loves to eat it, and I think this will only encourage her, just imagine how much meat there could be on one of those, probably as many of those lurking as Nessies!