It's nearly 10:00 pm on Friday night, and a group of children shine their flashlights on the imposing skeleton of a ...

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The blue whale is not only currently the biggest animal on Earth, but scientists long thought that it might be the largest animal to have ever lived. Now fossils unearthed in Peru suggest a giant ...