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It rained. It poured. It blew. At times, there was sun. Warm sun. When that happened, it was a nice day for a whale excavation.

We have a Miocene whale. Its about 12 million years old. Three foot wide, 8 foot long - Andrew Bland.

For five days, and some nights, the excavation project leader toiled next to 12 other amateur fossil hunters on a slippery point jutting into Coos Bay.

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A fossilised whale skeleton excavated 20 years ago amid the stench and noise of a seabird and elephant seal rookery on California's Año Nuevo Island turns out to be the youngest example on the Pacific coast of a fossil whale fall and the first in California, according to University of California, Berkeley, palaeontologists.
Whale falls, first recognized in the 1980s, are whale carcasses that fall to the deep-ocean floor where, like an oasis in the desert, they attract a specialized group of clams, crabs and worms that feed for up to decades on the oil-rich bones and tissues.
Some scientists think these random, deep-ocean oases are stepping stones for organisms moving from one ocean floor environment to another - whether a hot vent, a cold seep or a whale carcass - in search of sustenance from energy-rich chemicals.

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The critically endangered Yangtze River dolphin, or baiji, has been sighted in eastern China, Chinese media report.
Scientists had recently declared that the baiji was probably extinct.
An international team of researchers spent six weeks looking for the creature last year without a single sighting.

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A freshwater dolphin found only in China is now "likely to be extinct", a team of scientists has concluded.
The researchers failed to spot any Yangtze river dolphins, also known as baijis, during an extensive six-week survey of the mammals' habitat.

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Researchers say a museum in central Japan has right whale fossils that are at least 5 million years old, making them the oldest fossilized remains of the animal in the world, officials said Wednesday.
Researchers working in Nagano prefecture  estimate the fossilised skull bones and jaw of a right whale on display at the Shinshushinmachi Fossil Museum to be 5 million to 6 million years old.

The skeleton was first discovered in 1938, when residents found the whale's spine and rib bones exposed on the ground. However, the skeleton was left undisturbed because the country was then at war, according to the museum's Web site.
Researchers finally returned to the site in 1967, but the exposed parts of the skeleton had been scattered or lost. Only the skull and upper jaw parts were left to be excavated, but it was not until recently that the museum could afford to get the bones dated.

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Chilean Teenagers Find Trove of Whale Fossils
Chilean teenagers on a field trip have found what experts say could be a treasure trove of fossils from whales which died millions of years ago.
Teenagers from a school in Concon, a town on the Pacific coast, found the fossils last month in the hills near the village of Los Maitenes, nearly six km from the sea and 160 km from the capital Santiago.
They found fossilised jawbones, backbones and ribs of four whales which scientists say likely died 5 million years ago.

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An archaeological site containing the bones of numerous whales dating back five million years - was discovered near the Region V community of Puchuncaví in late May.
Palaeontologist Verónica Andrade discovered the fossil-rich area while working with her paleontology students.

Based on my experience, this could be the biggest whale discovery in Chile. It is a historic milestone that the students are now working to conserve and recover with different techniques - Verónica Andrade.

According to Andrade, the whale cemetery spans almost five hectares and has within it an enormous concentration of whale skeletons. All the uncovered bones belong to the balaenopteridae family, ancestor of the modern blue whale.
Archaeologists thus far have recovered a whale rib of almost two meters in length, lumbar vertebrae, and an enormous jaw.

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The biggest whale fossil ever discovered in Italy has been found in one of the country's finest vineyards.
The five-million-year-old skeleton, 10m in length, was dug up in the northern grape-growing area of Tuscany.
The vineyards of Castello Banfi, where the bones were uncovered, produce the famed Brunello de Montalcino wine, one of Italy's most prized.

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The world's only known whale-dolphin mix has given birth to a playful female calf, officials at Sea Life Park Hawaii said Thursday.
The calf was born on Dec. 23 to Kekaimalu, a mix of a false killer whale and an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin. Park officials said they waited to announce the birth until now because of recent changes in ownership and operations at the park.

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Japanese researchers said Sunday that a bottlenose dolphin captured last month has an extra set of fins that could be the remains of back legs, a discovery that may provide further evidence that ocean-dwelling mammals once lived on land.
Fishermen captured the four-finned dolphin off the coast of Wakayama prefecture (state) in western Japan on Oct. 28, and alerted the nearby Taiji Whaling Museum, according to museum director Katsuki Hayashi.

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