Ancient Whale Broke all the Rules

[Dann Pigdon <dannj@alphalink.com.au>]

"Ancient whale broke all the rules"
Stephen Pincock
ABC Science Online Wednesday, 16 August 2006

A bizarre whale fossil found on a beach in southern Australia suggests  
that baleen whales, the filter-feeding gentle giants of the sea, were  
not always gentle, or giants, a researcher says.

Erich Fitzgerald, a PhD student of Monash University in Melbourne and  
a research associate at Museum Victoria, describes the 25 million year  
old discovery in the latest issue of the journal Proceedings of the  
Royal Society B...

...But unlike modern baleen whales, which eat by filtering tiny krill  
and plankton from water, the fossil whale had teeth. It also had  
enormous eyes....

More at:
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1715433.htm

(Includes a picture of the skull)

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Dann Pigdon
GIS / Archaeologist         http://heretichides.soffiles.com
Melbourne, Australia        http://www.geocities.com/dannsdinosaurs
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