“Usually large skulls belong to baleen whales, but Klaas immediately noted enormous teeth, both on the upper and lower jaw.” They had found Livyatan. The skull is beautifully adapted to ...

The colossal sea creature is thought to have hunted other whales and sea mammals. Leviathan lived around 12 to 13 million years ago and rivalled the famous giant shark megalodon in size Livyatan ...

This was not a myth or a legend—it was the reality of Livyatan, one of history’s most terrifying whales. With jaws built for crushing bone and a hunger that drove it into the darkest ocean ...

Unlike in fiction, giant whales do not emerge fully-formed from the ocean deep. So, where did Livyatan melvillei come from? How did such a large predator live? And what caused the titan to die out?

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. What's more ...

But living whales have it easy. Those that swam off the coast of Peru around 12 million years ago were hunted by a far bigger predator, a recently discovered animal with a very appropriate name: ...