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Whale-eating whale found in Peru

The fossil of a 13-million-year-old giant sperm whale, which fed on other whales, has been found in a a coastal desert in Peru

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The fossil of a 13-million-year-old giant sperm whale, which fed on other whales, has been found in a a coastal desert in Peru.

While modern-day sperm whales have teeth only in their lower jaws, and suck down squid like large spaghetti noodles rather than catch the prey with their teeth, the "much-toothier" fossil sperm whales, however, may have eaten more like a outsized-orca, or killer whale, chomping great big bites out of its prey, Discovery News reported.

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