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[–] Stern@lemmy.world 74 points 1 month ago
[–] Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Honestly Godzilla could've just walked away and Kong would've died from cancer a couple years later

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Generally, the larger an animal is, the more resistant to cancer it is, since it'll have a lot more cells with a lot more chances of getting mutated. Maybe Kong is just built different.

[–] ComicalMayhem@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

the larger an animal is, the more resistant to cancer lot more cells with lot more chances of getting mutated

What? You mean less resistant? I'm so confused

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Whales and elephants have cancer suppressing genes, but the article says that there's evidence that dinosaurs got cancer, so it's not just size. But hell, if an ape can grow as big as Kong, who's to say that it wouldn't also have the cancer suppressing gene?

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I meant to write "the more resistant it is to counteract having a lot more cells" but fucked it up while editing

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

“BLARGH!!!”

[–] obre@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago