Scientist says new species described from 25-million-year-old fossil found in Victoria ‘was a gnarly whale I wouldn’t want to get in the water with’

Scientist says new species described from 25-million-year-old fossil found in Victoria ‘was a gnarly whale I wouldn’t want to get in the water with’

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The 25 million-year-old fossil shows a cartoonish creature with bulging eyes the size of tennis balls.

Scientist Erich Fitzgerald described the 25-million-year-old fossil as “some weird kind of mash-up between a whale, a seal and a Pokémon.”