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Fossil Is Ancient Relative of Modern Whales

Science File | IN BRIEF

June 19, 2004|From Times Staff and Wire Reports

Scientists say they have discovered a species of whale that lived 14 million years ago in a sea that covered what is now eastern Virginia. Paleontologists at the Virginia Museum of Natural History found fossils from the 35-foot whale in 1990.

The whale is the oldest known member of a group that includes the giant blue and fin whales.

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