Ancient Whale Had a Killer Bone-Breaking Bite
Researchers studying the sharpness mark leave alone behind on a fractured dodo skull have calculated the incredible os - crushing bite of an ancient whale : Basilosaurus isischomped down on other whales with the power of over 1,600 kilograms ( 3,500 pounds ) . Thefindingswere published inPLOS ONEthis week . innovative heavyweight emerged from archaeocete whale in the latest Eocene or earliest Oligocene around 34 million years ago . But unlike their early ancestors , today ’s whales do n’t masticate ....