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“Chonky” Whale May Have Been World’s Heaviest

Published on August 27, 2023 By sirrahc

“The authors have definitely found something new. This is a really weird, stupendously large, early whale.” — paleobiologist Nicholas Pyenson, curator of fossil marine mammals at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Thirteen years after paleontologist Mario Urbina discovered some really big fossils in the coastal desert of Peru, he and his team were […]