A new discovery has revealed that a marine reptile that lived during the Triassic was likely the largest predator that ever lived -- being even bigger than modern Blue Whales.
For the last couple of decades evidence for an enormous super-predator living in the oceans roughly 200 to 250 mya has been slowly amassing. Now, a series of discoveries and a re-analysis of earlier discoveries has made the case much stronger.
Blue Whales typically reach 29 some meters in length (between 95 and 98"), but this creature, a type of ichthyosaur, measured up to 35 meters (just under 115') long, and unlike Blue Whales, ate much larger prey than krill.
ETA: Hmm... I used Google cache to access the story but for some reason Google does not let me list that but instead insists on giving the regular url.
https://webcache.googleusercontent.c...uper-predator/
For the last couple of decades evidence for an enormous super-predator living in the oceans roughly 200 to 250 mya has been slowly amassing. Now, a series of discoveries and a re-analysis of earlier discoveries has made the case much stronger.
Blue Whales typically reach 29 some meters in length (between 95 and 98"), but this creature, a type of ichthyosaur, measured up to 35 meters (just under 115') long, and unlike Blue Whales, ate much larger prey than krill.
ETA: Hmm... I used Google cache to access the story but for some reason Google does not let me list that but instead insists on giving the regular url.
https://webcache.googleusercontent.c...uper-predator/