Livyatan

The skull and lower jaws of livyatan are gigantic and massive. Web leviathan, hebrew livyatan, in jewish mythology, a primordial sea serpent.

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Web livyatan is a genus of prehistoric marine mammals that lived during the miocene epoch (approximately 12 to 13 million years ago).

Livyatan. Web leviathan is more properly known as livyatan an artist's rendering of a leviathan and cetotherium. Web livyatan is an extinct genus of macroraptorial sperm whale containing one known species: Web leviathan, properly known as livyatan melvillei, is a prehistoric whale which lived approximately 13 million years ago during the miocene period.

Wikimedia commons the genus name leviathan— after the fearsome sea monster in the old testament—seems more than appropriate for a giant prehistoric whale. In the old testament, leviathan appears in psalms 74:14 as a multiheaded sea serpent that is killed by god and given as food to the. Web scientific name †livyatan melvillei read our complete guide to classification of animals.

Its source is in prebiblical mesopotamian myth, especially that of the sea monster in the ugaritic myth of baal ( see yamm ). Unlike the modern sperm whale ( physeter ), livyatan possessed massive, deeply rooted upper teeth and a short, wide snout. It was first discovered in 2008 when fossils of livyatan melvillei were collected from the coastal desert of peru.

The modern sperm whale lacks upper teeth, and has a. Līvyāṯān) is a sea serpent noted in theology and mythology. The type species is the only known species, being l.

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