Meet the Hypercarnivorous whale, it’s the combination of an Ancient Whale & Killer Shark, the name of the whale was dedicated to Herman Melville, the author of Moby-Dick. It’s a a 12-million year old sperm whale that ate other whales with powerful jaws and foot-long teeth.
“This is a pretty exciting discovery,” says Erich Fitzgerald, a vertebrate paleontologist at Museum Victoria in Melbourne, Australia. Leviathan represents “one thing we don’t have in the oceans today — a macropredator, a hypercarnivorous whale.”
Modern sperm whales feed largely on invertebrates such as giant squid, but have been known to feed on fish and other creatures as well. The extremely robust, deeply-rooted structure of Leviathan’s teeth strongly suggests that the creature fed on large, presumably struggling bony prey like sharks do.
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