The sheer size of its teeth—some measuring over a foot long—immediately set Livyatan apart from any known whale, past or present. Unlike the toothless filter-feeders we see today, this whale ...

They were also angled forwards, giving Livyatan a better grip on prey with curved bodies. The modern sperm whale is very different to its ancient cousin. It grow to about the same size as ...

Leviathan lived around 12 to 13 million years ago and rivalled the famous giant shark megalodon in size Livyatan melvillei is an extinct species of physeteroid whale, which lived during the ...

Paleontologists believe the tooth, which is bigger than that of a Tyrannosaurus-rex, belonged to a close ancestral relation of Livyatan melvillei, an ancient species of Peruvian sperm whale that ...

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: Livyatan. Today’s sperm whale has no ...

the whale was a strong rival for the megalodon, which typically sized up at 18 metres long and pursued similar prey. Back in 2008 researchers in Peru found the mysterious bones from livyatan ...