Fossil Is Ancient Relative of Modern Whales
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Scientists say they have discovered a species of whale that lived 14 million years ago in a sea that covered what is now eastern Virginia. Paleontologists at the Virginia Museum of Natural History found fossils from the 35-foot whale in 1990.
The whale is the oldest known member of a group that includes the giant blue and fin whales.
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