It is supposed that the big guy was probably a scarcass scavenger.A team of paleontologists has announced the discovery of an Eocene-era whale it believes may be the heaviest animal to ever live, surpassing the extant blue whale in mass.
The behemoth is named Perucetus colossus, its genus name being derived from its country of origin. The animal’s fossilized remains were found in Peru’s Pisco Basin, between the towns of Pisco and Nazca. It lived about 39 million years ago, based on biostratigraphy and dating of Argon in the layers at which the remains were found.
But here’s the crazy part: the titanic whale weighed anywhere between 93.7 and 374.8 tons (85 and 340 metric tons). In common internet parlance of the 2010s, one could consider the Eocene whale chonky, perhaps the chonkiest creature of all time. To put it in perspective, at the upper bound of 374.8 tons, that’s roughly the same weight as 62 large elephants. The team’s research describing the superlatively sized species was published today in Nature.
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