this post was submitted on 14 Sep 2024
200 points (99.5% liked)

Godzilla

299 readers
22 users here now

All Things Godzilla - King of Monsters

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
ekZepp
[email protected]
200
King Kong vs Godzilla (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago by ekZepp to c/godzilla
9 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Cosmonauticus 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months 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 13 points 5 months 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 14 points 5 months 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?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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