Researchers re-analyze 15-million-year-old sperm whale fossil, find 'white whale'
Wednesday, December 9, 2015 - 14:05
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.