Extinct Hippolike Creature Was Prehistoric Vacuum Cleaner

Fossils of the newfound species — found on the Aleutian Islands' Unalaska, the location of the popular reality TV show "Deadliest Catch" — show that it had a long snout and tusks. Its unique tooth and jaw structure indicates it was a vegetarian, said study co-author Louis Jacobs, a vertebrate paleontologist at Southern Methodist University in Texas. "They were marine mammals, but they were not completely marine, like whales," Jacobs said in a video about his research.