The entire ancient whale weighed about as much as a blue whale’s heart.
specimen perished on the cusp of adulthood. It still had a couple of its baby teeth, along with adult molars that grew in relatively early in its life. That pattern of tooth growth suggests that the species “lived fast and died fast,” or at least faster than other basilosaurids, says study coauthor Abdullah Gohar, a paleontologist at Mansoura University in Egypt., possibly the heaviest animal ever known to exist, in Peru .
Gohar says he hopes to study older fossils to better understand the full story of whale evolution. The area where the researchers foundcontains 15 million years of mammalian evolutionary history, including that of other early whales. “We’ve been working that area for a long time,” Uhen says. “It’s good to know that there are still things out there to discover.”
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