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Madness Madenned! Giant Prehistoric Whale Discovered

From the mixed up flies of Mrs. Rachel E. Hateball comes this tasty morsel:

The massive skull and jaw of a 13-million-year-old sperm whale has been discovered eroding from the windblown sands of a coastal desert of Peru.

The giant 3-meter (10-foot) skull of what’s been dubbed Leviathan melvillei (in honor of the author of “Moby Dick”) was found with teeth in its top and bottom jaws up to 36 centimeters (14 inches) long.

I’m pretty sure I love everything about this: the discovery of a giant prehistoric sea-mammal. Naming it after Herman Melville, the author of Moby Dick. And of course, the fact that it was likely to perpetrate some serious fluke-on-fluke crime. Sort of like the Suge Knight of prehistoric whales.

Gangster.

- Hateball

2 Responses to “Madness Madenned! Giant Prehistoric Whale Discovered”

  1. Hateball Says:
    June 30th, 2010 at 4:59 pm

    Didn’t we used to have a Science tag? I thought for sure that’s where I used to put all this weird dinosaur shit. Maybe not…

  2. VELOCITRON Says:
    June 30th, 2010 at 8:50 pm

    Also, whales w/ teef are quantifiably better than whales w/o. Baleen is seriously for tiny baby jerks.

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