In 2008, a massive 10-foot skull was pulled from the sun-baked deserts of Peru. It belonged to the ultimate biological submarine: Livyatan melvillei. Weighing an estimated 50 tons and stretching 50 feet long, this hyper-predatory prehistoric sperm whale was engineered for extreme violence in the Miocene ocean.
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