Story of 4.5-million-year-old whale found in Spain
Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - 20:14
in Paleontology & Archaeology
In 2006, researchers found the fossil remains of a whale, 4.5 million years old, in Spain. Now they have published, for the first time, the results of the decay and fossilization process that started with the death of the young cetacean, possibly a baleen whale from the Mysticeti group.