"The blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds." The 1970s local news clip of Oregon city officials exploding a beached whale with dynamite. The wordplay; the car crushed by whale meat; the mid-roll credit to local filmmaker "Doug Brazil." A perfect piece of cinema.
Where did Livyatan melvillei come from? How did such a large predator live? And what caused the titan to die out? The answer may lie in an appetite so large, it may have eaten itself to extinction...
