Killer of a tooth

Updated
Apr 23, 2016, 05:00 AM
Published
Apr 23, 2016, 05:00 AM

Australian palaeontologist Erich Fitzgerald holding a five-million- year-old tooth from a killer sperm whale. The 30cm fossilised tooth, larger than that of a Tyrannosaurus rex, was discovered recently on a beach near Melbourne and provides the first

Australian palaeontologist Erich Fitzgerald holding a five-million- year-old tooth from a killer sperm whale. The 30cm fossilised tooth, larger than that of a Tyrannosaurus rex, was discovered recently on a beach near Melbourne and provides the first evidence of the now extinct whale outside the Americas.

PHOTO: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE

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