Scientists in Peru found the fossils of a heavy animal that could be bigger than the blue whale.

<div class="block">Scientists in Peru found the fossils of a heavy animal that could be bigger than the blue whale.</div>

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Scientists in Peru Discover Heaviest Animal Fossils

Elsewhere, the blue whale is known to be the heaviest animal to ever live. Take a look but this prehistoric whale might be giving it a run for its money. Scientists in Peru found the fossils of this creature on the side of a slope in the country's ICA desert which was once underwater while they found 13 vertebrae, four ribs and a hippo. Each vertebrae weighs over £220. 0 my goodness. It's ribs measure at nearly 5 ft long and they calculated that the animal weighed somewhere between 94 and 375 tons tons with the tea. So for comparison, a blue whale weighs about 200 tons with the tea. Scientists believe that the whale spent its time in shallow coastal waters.