Giant sea monsters are trending with the newly described Cretaceous "kraken"*.
So for #FossilFriday, a better known super predator named after myth: Livyatan melvillei!
A true terror of the Miocene oceans, I was thrilled to see original fossils and a skull cast of this killer sperm whale in Lima.
Uri Wolkowski
This #FossilFriday I'm moving over from giant marine reptiles to mammals! Starting with one of the biggest of them all: Perucetus collosus!
First claimed to be potentially heavier than a blue whale, Perucetus had since been "downsized" drastically. It was nevertheless a mightily chonky beast >
