#Estimates for this thing's mass go all the way up to 340 metric tonnes
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Wake up, mate! New protowhale just described today, and it's a doozy.
Ladies and gentlemen, introducing the one, the only, that most magnificent of chorizos, contender for the title of chonkiest chonker in history, let's give it up for Perucetus colossus!
*cue thunderous applause and wild cheering*
#Perucetus#Bianucci et al. 2023#Estimates for this thing's mass go all the way up to 340 metric tonnes#Even the lower estimates put it around 85 tonnes#It was so huge even its vertebrae had fat rolls
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