Fossilized Whale Inner Ear Bone Specimen A

Fossilized Whale Inner Ear Bone Specimen A-Fossils-Paxton Gate-PaxtonGate
Fossilized Whale Inner Ear Bone Specimen A-Fossils-Paxton Gate-PaxtonGate
Fossilized Whale Inner Ear Bone Specimen A-Fossils-Paxton Gate-PaxtonGate
Fossilized Whale Inner Ear Bone Specimen A-Fossils-Paxton Gate-PaxtonGate

Fossilized Whale Inner Ear Bone Specimen A

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Approximately 6" 

Discovered in Alaska 

Approximately 5 million to 11,700 years old

Originally mistaken for dinosaur fossils (Hydrarchos), whale bones uncovered in recent years have told us much about the behemoth sea creatures. For more than a century, our knowledge of the whale fossil record was so sparse that no one could be certain what the ancestors of whales looked like. Now the tide has turned. In the space of just three decades, a flood of new fossils has filled in the gaps in our knowledge to turn the origin of whales into one of the best-documented examples of large-scale evolutionary change in the fossil record. These ancestral creatures were stranger than anyone ever expected. There was no straight-line march of terrestrial mammals leading up to fully aquatic whales, but an evolutionary riot of amphibious cetaceans that walked and swam along rivers, estuaries and the coasts of prehistoric Asia. As strange as modern whales are, their fossil predecessors were even stranger. 

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