Saturday, 1 July 2017

Researchers discover a new species of whale 30 million years after it swam through the Lowcountry

Fang-like front chompers. Back molars shaped like scallop shells. The odd teeth struck the researchers in their first glance.
The fossil pulled from the Wando River was a whale no one had ever seen before.
We're not talking teeny. The jagged teeth gape from a squat skull that looks as ferocious as a crocodile. The whale would have weighed 125 tons — the weight of 20 African elephants.-read more

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