Perucetus is NOT ‘the heaviest animal on record’

This Nature paper by Bianucci et al 2023 includes several superlatives (e.g. ‘heaviest animal on record‘) that do not pan out. Mismatching scale bars are the issue. One set of scale bars (on the published restoration, Fig 1) makes Perucetus … Continue reading Perucetus is NOT ‘the heaviest animal on record’