Palaeontologists unearth the roughly 36-million-year-old skull of a ferocious marine predator that once lived in a prehistoric ocean covering part of what is now Peru.
Palaeontologists have unearthed the skull of a ferocious marine predator, an ancient ancestor of modern-day whales, which once lived in a prehistoric ocean that covered part of what is now Peru.The skull may belong to a new species ofThe roughly 36-million-year-old well-preserved skull, with rows of long, pointy teeth, was dug up intact last year from the bone-dry rocks of Peru's southern Ocucaje Desert.
The one-time top predator likely measured some 12 metres long, or about the height of a four-storey building. "It was a marine monster," Rodolfo Salas, chief of palaeontology at Peru's National University of San Marcos, told reporters. The skull likely sank to the bottom of the sea floor after the mammal died, where it was buried and preserved.
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