The Animal That Made the Blue Whale Look Small.

The Animal That Made the Blue Whale Look Small. Imagine walking along the shores of a prehistoric ocean and knowing that, deep below the surface, lived an animal so immense that it makes even the blue whale seem small. This is not fiction. It is a creature that inhabited the Earth more than thirty-nine million years ago and that, until recently, no one even imagined had existed. But who was this colossus of the seas? How did it live? And what can its bones—found in the desert of Peru—teach us about the evolution of the largest creatures that have ever inhabited our planet?