Paleontologists from the University of California, Davis, and Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History estimate that Perucetus colossus,...
The newly-identified species of basilosaurid whale has been named Tutcetus rayanensis after the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun. This new species...
Perucetus colossus substantially pushes the upper limit of skeletal mass in mammals, as well as in aquatic vertebrates in general. This early basilosaurid...