36-million-year-old whale fossil found in Peruvian desert

The remains of an ancient whale that lived 36 million years ago were unveiled by paleontologists on Thursday.

The skull of an archaic whale that lived 36 million years ago has been presented to the team that discovered it.

The basilosaurus was found in the Ica department at the end of the year. Large numbers of primitive sea mammal remains have been found in the dunes of the desolate landscape.

The Ocucaje Predator was about 55 feet long and used its teeth to feed on tuna, sharks and schools of sardines.

This finding is very important because there are no other similar ones found in the world, said Urbina, a researcher at the National University of San Marcos.

Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi explained that the basilosaurus is different from other ancient whale species by its size and development of teeth, both of which indicate the animal was at the top of the food chain.

He told Agence France-Presse that the animal was one of the largest predator of its time.

The Department of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Natural History Museum in Lima believes that this type of fossil can be used to reconstruct the history of the Peruvian.

55 million years ago, the basilosaurus evolved from land animals.

Cetceans had fully adapted to marine life by the late Eocene period, between 56 million and 34 million years ago.

According to the research team, almost all cetaceans were marine macropredators.

Scientists have 42 million years of evolutionary evidence thanks to the fossils found in the Ocucaje Desert.

Four-legged dwarf whales, dolphins, sharks, and other species were found there.

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