Was the ancient whale bigger than it is now?
There is not much difference. The complete description of whales in ancient and modern notes is: whale hunters, marine fish also. The big ones are thousands of miles long and the small ones are dozens of feet. I have tens of thousands of children in my life, and I often give birth on the shore in May and June. In July and August, the guide returned to the sea from his son, and the drums turned into thunder, and the spray turned into rain. The aquarium was frightened and fled and hid. Its female name is huge, and the big one is also thousands of miles long, and the eye is bright moon and pearl. If whales have this reproductive ability, they will have tens of thousands of children in their lifetime, so they are not afraid of extinction. Look at what else is written in the insects, fish, birds and beasts in ancient and modern notes: help the old and carry the young, and shed the autumn colors. It is as big as a crane. The biggest man is eight feet tall. He is good at fighting with people and biting snakes. The geese crossed the south of the Yangtze River from Hebei, so they can fly high and are not afraid to pay. Vasco Var?o in the south of the Yangtze River never dares to fly high when he returns to Hebei, for fear of being captured by others. I tasted a few inches of reed to prevent it from being paid. When geese eat sand and stones on the beach by the river, they are all ruined, but they don't have to eat sea clams. They are used as medicine together with their feces, which is twice as good as others. A crane is pale at the age of one thousand, and black at the age of two thousand. The so-called xuanhe also. Apes become apes at the age of 500. When partridges come out of the south, they often call themselves. I often fly to the sun, afraid of frost and dew, hoping to come out sooner or later. Sometimes flying at night, flying at night covers the back with leaves, spits birds, and works hard. Bat, fairy mouse, flying mouse. 500 is white. When the brain reunites, the head hangs down, so it is called the god of food. Thousands of cranes, hundreds of apes called apes, big birds with heads eight feet high (if I understand correctly, their heads are eight feet high), and bats with hundreds of years old. Appropriate fantasy novel setting. To put it bluntly, Notes on Ancient and Modern Times is an encyclopedia of Jin Dynasty, and its description of creatures is similar to that of Shan Hai Jing. In ancient times, the traffic was underdeveloped, and the information of exotic animals was easily distorted in the process of communication. Of course, there are many very reliable descriptions in ancient and modern notes, such as frogs saying tadpoles, mysterious needles and abstruse fish. The shape is round and the tail is big, and the tail falls off and gives birth to feet. Dragonfly, a dragon, said he was guarding the palace. Good at catching cicadas and eating cicadas. Its long, thin and colorful ones are called lizards, and its short ones are called salamanders. Speaking of snake doctors, the biggest one is three feet long and mysteriously good at stinging people. A mysterious Qiu, a green Qiu also.