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The Perucetus Paradox: Dethroning the Blue Whale, Insights into the World’s Heaviest Beast
Peruvian researchers have unearthed fossils of a colossal early whale, named Perucetus colossus, potentially dethroning the blue whale as the heaviest known animal. The ancient marine mammal lived approximately 38-40 million years