Move over, blue whales. There could be a new heavyweight champion in town.
Fossilized vertebrae and ribs from a. If so, the extinct whale would be the heaviest animal ever known to exist., is a type of cetacean, a group that includes modern whales, dolphins and porpoises. And its bones were massive.’ skeleton alone could have weighed about 5 to 7 metric tons, two to three times as much as a 25-meter-long blue whale’s skeleton does, the researchers estimate.
The fossils, which were found in southern Peru, were “clearly something exceptional from the first look,” says Eli Amson, a paleontologist at the State Museum of Natural History in Stuttgart, Germany. “You don’t move a vertebra like this by yourself.” Thirteen vertebrae were unearthed in total, each weighing over 100 kilograms, or more than a baby elephant.vertebra required multiple people to transport it from its origin site in the Ica Province of southern Peru.
Amson says he is hopeful that the team will find a more complete specimen of the whale to better understand how it maintained its heavyweight status.
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