Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, Updated August 2, 2023
Move over, blue whale. You’ve been demoted.
” Scientists have discovered what they say could be the heaviest animal that ever lived on Earth: a gigantic ancient whale that may have been two to three times as heavy as the modern blue whale.
The newly discovered whale, which has been given the Latin name Perucetus colossus (“the colossal whale from Peru”), lived about 39 million years ago.
Though its roughly 66-foot length doesn’t break records, its weight does. The study estimates it weighed 375 tons − or about as heavy as 35 school buses,”
Paleontologists in Peru Discover What Might Be the ‘Chonkiest Whale Ever’
And maybe the heaviest animal the world has ever seen
BY ROXANNE HOORN AUGUST 2, 2023
THIRTEEN YEARS AGO, PALEONTOLOGIST
” Mario Urbina made a remarkable discovery in the coastal desert of Peru. He had a hunch that it was something really special. But his conclusion was so odd that it took years of excavation. And testing to show international scientists that his convictions were right. According to Urbina’s field partner and fellow paleontologist Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi, head of the vertebrate paleontology department at the Museum of Natural History in Lima.
They were fossil masses, and what Urbina thought they were: preserved bones from a new species of early whale, dating to 39 million years ago. And, it turns out, this one was a whopper,”
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