¡Exclusivo! Animal más pesado de la historia: Panorama llega a desierto con descubridor de Perucetus

Panorama exclusively visited the Ocucaje Desert in the province of Ica, where Peruvian paleontologist Mario Urbina discovered the fossil of the "Perucetus Colossus," considered the heaviest animal to have ever existed on Earth. According to Urbina, from the beginning he was convinced that his discovery would mark a turning point in history, however, it took him four years to prove to the scientific community that his discovery was unprecedented. "It took me four long years of sending letters and having them bounced back. While I was sending letters, I continued excavating and convincing myself that it was bigger until I finally said it was something five times larger than a vertebra of that time," he said. A WEIGHT OF 200 TONS The "Perucetus" is a species that lived millions of years ago on the Peruvian coast, and its 200 tons of weight are comparable to 25 elephants combined. The remains of this prehistoric whale were transferred to the Natural History Museum.