Scientists Discover 'White Whale' Fossil
Wednesday, December 9, 2015 - 15:19
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A 15 million year-old fossil sperm whale specimen from California belongs to a new genus, according to a study published December 9, 2015 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Alexandra Boersma and Nicholas Pyenson from the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.