Colossus the enormous 'oddball' whale is not the biggest animal to ever live, scientists say

A weird extinct whale with a plump body and tiny limbs isn't the heaviest animal to ever live after all, a new study has claimed, bringing with it a whale of a debate.

"With their weight, this animal could not stay at the surface," lead author Ryosuke Motani, a paleobiologist at the University of California, Davis, told Live Science."This animal would have been swimming vertically up all the time, which is impossible." Amson reviewed the new study prior to publication with another author from the 2023 study, so they knew it was coming. He noted that the study didn't find factual inaccuracies in their research, but merely made different estimates based on their data.

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Only part of rare 280 million-year-old fossil is real — the rest is mostly paintPatrick Pester is a freelance writer and previously a staff writer at Live Science. His background is in wildlife conservation and he has worked with endangered species around the world. Patrick holds a master's degree in international journalism from Cardiff University in the U.K.
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