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Scientists have discovered fossils
That might have belonged to the heavieest animal in earth's history
The blue whale holds the current record as the largest creature to live on earth
But a collection of bones found in peruru
Might break that record researchers recently introduced the whale species in a study in the publication nature
It is called peruuitties colosis or the collossal whale from pararu each backbone or vertebra weighs more than one hundred kilograms
The animal's ribs measure nearly one point four meters long
Mario arba discovered the bones in twenty twelve
He is with the university of sanmarcoose's natural history museum in lima
An international teams spent years digging them out from the side of a rocky hill in the ecodesert
The area was once under water
And is known for its rich collection of ocean fossils
The find resulted in thirteen backbone
Vertabre four ribs and a hipbone
The large fossils dadate back to around thirty nine million years ago
Albertto colorta is a palyontologist at italy's university of pizza
He was a lead writer of the study
He told the associated press
The fossils were unlike anything
I've ever seen
Huntatevson son is a paleintetoligist at northeoohio medical university
Who did not take part in the research
He said
It's just exciting to see such a giant animal
That's so different from anything we know
After the digging operation
The researchers used three d scanners to study the surface of the bones
And also looked inside the researchers used the huge
But in complete skeleton to estimate the whale's size and weight
Said
Eli amson
He is a palyontologist at the state museum of natural history in stood guard germany
The team estimates the ancient creature weighed somewhere between eighty five and three hundred forty metric tones
The biggest blue whales found have been within that range at about one hundred eighty metric tones
The body of paraciit's colosis stretched about twenty meters long blue whales can be longer with some growing to more than thirty meters
This means the newly discovered whale was possibly the heavieest animal ever said the university of pieces collerta
But he added it was most likely not the longest animal ever
The research team said
One reason the animal weighs more is because its bones are much denser and heavier than a blue whales bones
Those superdense bones suggest the whale may have spent its time in less deep coastal waters
The scientists said
Other animals that stay close to the coast
Like manities have heavy bones to help them stay close to the sea floor
Amson from the state museum of natural history in germany said
That without the school
It is hard to know what the whale was eating to support such a huge body
It is possible that the large creatures sought food along the sea floor
The researchers said
Or it could have aten up tons of smaller sea life in the ocean
Tawson added that he would not be surprised
If this thing actually fed in a totally different way
That we would never imagine
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