![]() ![]() 2, 2023, that the creature could challenge the blue whale’s title as the heaviest animal that lived on Earth. Scientists reported in the journal Nature, Wednesday, Aug. In this June 2017, photo provided by Department of Earth Sciences, University of Pisa, a single vertebra collected within a plaster jacked of Perucetus colossus is transported from the site of origin in the Ica desert in Ica Province, southern Peru, to the Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional Mayor San Marcos, in Lima. This means the newly discovered whale was "possibly the heaviest animal ever," Collareta said, but "it was most likely not the longest animal ever." Blue whales can be longer-with some growing to more than 100 feet (30 meters) in length. Its body stretched to around 66 feet (20 meters) long. The biggest blue whales found have been within that range-at around 200 tons (180 metric tons). They calculated that the ancient giant weighed somewhere between 94 and 375 tons (85 and 340 metric tons). An international team spent years digging them out from the side of a steep, rocky slope in the Ica desert, a region in Peru that was once underwater and is known for its rich marine fossils. The bones were first discovered more than a decade ago by Urbina from the University of San Marcos’ Natural History Museum. Paleontologist Mario Urbina poses for a photo next to the vertebrae of a newly found species named Perucetus colossus, or “the colossal whale from Peru”, during a presentation in Lima, Peru, Wednesday, Aug. ![]()
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