Australian scientists have discovered a razor-dinner whale that extended the seas 26 million years ago, saying on Wednesday that the species was “misleadically cute”, but a horrific hunter.
Museum Victoria In 2019, an unusually well -consumed species from an unusually well protected skull fossils found on the surf coast of Victoria.
One in Study published on TuesdayScientists say they discovered a “sharp, sharp-dinner hunter” that would be about the size of a dolphin.
“It is essentially a little whale with large eyes and is sharp, teeth full,” the researcher Ruridh Dunkan said. “Imagine a shark-like version of a balen whale-Chhota and misleading cute, but certainly not harmless.”
Museum Victoria A video released Duncan shows the discovery showing and how researchers were able to identify the species.
Art by Ruairidh Duncan/Museum Victoria
The skull belonged to a group of prehistoric whales known as mammals, which are small relatives of today’s filter-feeding whales.
This is the fourth mammalian species that has been discovered at any time, the museum Victoria said. And this is the third to be identified in Victoria Search in 2006 and 1939Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported.
“The fossil opens a window of how the ancient whales increased and changed, and how development shaped his body, because they were adapted to life in the sea,” said Palentologist Eric Fitzgerald, who co-written the study.
Victoria’s surf coast is located on the JUC Formation – a geological characteristic for the Oligosin era 23 to 30 million years ago.
A famous site for the study of early whale development, a string of rare fossils with beautiful stretch of the beach has been detected.
“This region was once a cradle for some of the most unusual whales in history, and we are only beginning to highlight their stories,” said Fitzgerald. “We are entering a new phase of search.
“This area is re -writing the story of how the whale came to rule the oceans, with some amazing plot.”
Fitzgerald told ABC The whale was unique to Australia.
“If he was alive today, he would be an Australian Australian in the form of Kangaroo,” he said.
The species was named Janjusetus Dulladi, an indication for the local Ross Dulad, who stumbled into the skull walking on the beach in 2019.
It was described in the review of the colleague Zoological Journal of the Linian Society,
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