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Tuesday, 8 November 2011

A whale of a time

It's not often that the Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology gets headline treatment. Egyptian limestone and an Italian stonecutter provided the evidence that two researchers have illuminated with their erudite delving.

The whale itself is an incredible find, a new species, to be named after its origins as Aegyptocetus tarfa. Both Philip Gingerich of University of Michigan and Giovanni Bianucci of Universita di Pisa believe that 40 million years ago, this amazing link was hauling itself in and out of the sea at a time when these mammals were still semi-aquatic.   More Read

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