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Moby Dick meets Jaws

Extinct whale had teeth bigger than T. rex's

By Sid Perkins

- More than 2 years ago

What would you get if you crossed a whale with a shark? Maybe something like Leviathan melvillei, a long-extinct, hypercarnivorous whale with teeth longer than any T. rex ever had.

JAWS. BIG ONES. Leviathan melvillei, a newly discovered species of hypercarnivorous sperm whale that lived between 12 million and 13 million years ago, probably fed on mid-sized baleen whales, a new study suggests.