Spade-toothed whales, a type of beaked whale, were first discovered in 1874 after a jaw bone was found in New Zealand’s Chatham Islands. Since then, just a handful of specimens have been found ...
This image shows the upper jaw and skull of Maiabalaena nesbittae ... whose chemical composition is more like that of hair or fingernails than bone, does not preserve well. It is rarely found ...
a partial skeleton of a sperm whale and blue whale jaw bones. “These were the hanging skeletons but we had many different skulls, rib bones, vertebrae of not only marine mammals but terrestrial ...
The 205 million-year-old jaw bone of a prehistoric reptile belongs to ‘one of the ... Approaching the size of a blue whale. Fossil collector and co-author of the study, Paul de la Salle, found the ...
Sperm whales are the largest toothed whales in the world, reaching 45 tons and living for decades. Their populations were imperiled by historic whaling practices and they are still considered rare ...
The park holds two curios; a ten-foot-high whale jaw bone which was presented to the park in 1903 by the Captain of the Artic Whaler Benbow, and an intricate fountain designed as a replica of an ...
The fossils of its lower jaw, head ... full fossilized bone structures of whales are rare in Japan. In one case, the fossilized remains of a sperm whale were discovered in Matsumoto, Nagano ...