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Call me Leviathan melvillei

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Sperm whale fossil has the biggest whale bite ever seen.

A Peruvian desert has turned out to be the final resting place of an ancient sperm whale with teeth much bigger than those of the largest of today's sperm whales.

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  1. Lambert, O. et al. Nature 466, 105-108 (2010).

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Fang, J. Call me Leviathan melvillei . Nature (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2010.322

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