Paleontologist Melissa Macias stands over pieces of a 10-million to 12-million-year-old sperm whale skull she discovered May 20 at the Frank R. Bowerman Landfill in Irvine.
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Jere Lipps, director of the Cooper Center, an archaeology and paleontology research institute, holds a diagram of the history of life in Orange County as he speaks Tuesday about the significance of the discovery of 10-million to 12-million-year-old sperm whale fossils at the Frank R. Bowerman Landfill in Irvine.
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Work trucks are parked Tuesday in the area where sperm whale fossils estimated to be 10 million to 12 million years old were found May 20 at the Frank R. Bowerman Landfill in Irvine.
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