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Fossil Skull from Peru Reveals Pygmy Sperm Whale with Record-Breaking Facial Asymmetry


Some six million years ago (Late Miocene epoch), a pygmy sperm whale with a face unlike anything in today’s oceans may have swept its downturned snout along the shallow seabed off what is now southern Peru.

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