Aug 2 (Reuters) - Move over, blue whale. There is a new contender for the most massive animal in Earth's history. Scientists on Wednesday described fossils of an early whale unearthed in Peru ...

In the Andes Mountains of northern Peru, a long-tailed mammal with a “facial mask” moved through the undergrowth. Suddenly, ...

It weighed up to 340 metric tonnes, a mass that would exceed any other known animal including today’s blue whale and the largest dinosaurs. Its scientific name means “colossal Peruvian whale”.

Darkness stretched across the mountains of northern Peru, coaxing a golden-eyed creature out of its hiding place. It perched ...

A new species of ancient whale might be the heaviest animal ever found. ... or "the colossal whale from Peru" — in the journal Nature on Wednesday. Each vertebra weighs over 220 pounds ...

The Ocucaje Desert, where paleontologists recently unearthed the ancient skeleton of the world’s heaviest animal, is being overtaken by human settlement. Mario Urbina Schmitt, a paleontologist ...

There is a new contender for the most massive animal in Earth's history. Scientists on Wednesday described fossils of an early whale unearthed in Peru called Perucetus colossus that lived about 38 ...

Ancient whale from Peru may be most massive animal ever on Earth Whales evolved a bit more than 50 million years ago from hoofed, land-dwelling mammals as big as a medium-sized dog.