Bianucci/Current BiologyThe ancient four-legged whale had a specific gait it used ... and tail — on Peru’s Playa Media Luna coast in 2011. Researchers have since placed the species in the ...

The first fossil of the ancient whale was discovered back in 2010 by Mario Urbina, a palaeontologist who has spent decades searching the desert on the southern coast of Peru. “There is no record ...

It was only at the beginning of 2022 that the first assessments of the skeletal remains of Peru's so-called 'sea monster', an ancient whale considered one of the largest predators that existed 36 ...