Livyatan wasn’t your average whale. Stretching up to 57 feet in length, it rivaled today’s sperm whales in size, but it was far more fearsome.

Livyatan was at the very top of the food chain and it must have needed a lot of food.While modern sperm whales mainly eat squid, Lambert thinks that Livyatan used its fearsome teeth to kill its ...

Livyatan, together with Megalodon and other super-predators that swam the Miocene oceans, put enormous pressure on their main prey animals, the medium-sized baleen whales.

The livyatan was a hunting whale that lived around 13million years ago. It measured 44 to 57 feet long and weighed up to 62.8 tons, making it the largest known whale in history.

When the fossil of this 12 million year old whale with a terrifying set of giant jaws was uncovered the ... Livyatan, to correct this. In the end, the mastodon came away with the name because ...

Scientists believe that the "biggest-ever" sea creature named as the "Livyatan", was found in Peru in 2008, weighing over 60 tonnes and had a jaw that packed a number of sharp teeth ...

While modern sperm whales mainly eat squid, Lambert thinks that Livyatan used its fearsome teeth to kill its own kind – the giant baleen whales. At the same point in prehistory, baleen whales started ...