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

Nov 9, 2026 - 14:15
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Fossil Skull from Peru Reveals Pygmy Sperm Whale with Record-Breaking Facial Asymmetry
Scaphokogia huachafo was about 2.7 m (9 feet) long; the entire structure of its skull and neck was designed to point its snout directly toward the seafloor. Image credit: Jaime Bran Sarmiento.

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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