The new analysis puts Perucetus colossus back in the same weight range as modern whales and smaller than the largest blue whales ever recorded. The work is published Feb. 29 in PeerJ. A fossil ...

It's an ancient, long-extinct whale that ... given the name Perucetus colossus. Dating of the sediments around the remains suggests it lived about 39 million years ago. "The fossils were actually ...

But Perucetus colossus – the colossal whale from ... meaning it could have been significantly larger. The first fossil of the ancient whale was discovered back in 2010 by Mario Urbina, a ...

(CN) — Researchers from Peru, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland and beyond came together to discover what may be the world's largest animal: the Perucetus colossus whale. Previously, the largest known ...