One of the largest and most powerful marine predators was a prehistoric killer sperm whale so big in size it rivalled the famous giant shark megalodon. Named after the Biblical sea monster and the ...

Megalodon tends to dominate conversations about prehistoric ocean predators. Its massive jaws and oversized teeth have turned it into a pop-culture icon that feels almost mythical. Yet during the ...

Discover the fierce predator, Livyatan melvillei, a prehistoric sperm whale that shaped the ocean's food chain 12 million years ago. In today’s oceans, killer whales hunt other species of whales, ...

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?

In Cerro Colorado, located in the Ica Desert of Peru, sedimentary sequences dating back nine million years have been found to host the fossil skeletons of hundreds of marine vertebrates. In 2008, ...

When the fossil of this 12 million year old whale with a terrifying set of giant jaws was uncovered the name chosen was a fitting one: Leviathan, for the Biblical sea monster, and Melvillei, for the ...

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 ...