For 150 years, no one had ever seen a full spade-toothed whale
For 150 years, no one had ever seen a full spade-toothed whale
DHF Mon Nov 05, 2012 5:17 pm
For 150 years, no one had ever seen a full spade-toothed whale. Then two wash up on a beach.
For almost 150 years, no one had seen a spade-toothed whale. That’s not to say that the animal had gone extinct – no one had ever seen one alive. The first clue to its existence came in 1872, when Scottish geologist James Hector described an unusual jaw that had been collected from New Zealand’s Pitt Island a year earlier.
Two more partial skulls would follow: another from New Zealand’s White Island in 1950 and the other from Chile’s Robinson Crusoe Island in 1986. But still, no one had seen the animal in the flesh.
Then, in December 2010, two of them washed up on Opape Beach in New Zealand.
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For almost 150 years, no one had seen a spade-toothed whale. That’s not to say that the animal had gone extinct – no one had ever seen one alive. The first clue to its existence came in 1872, when Scottish geologist James Hector described an unusual jaw that had been collected from New Zealand’s Pitt Island a year earlier.
Two more partial skulls would follow: another from New Zealand’s White Island in 1950 and the other from Chile’s Robinson Crusoe Island in 1986. But still, no one had seen the animal in the flesh.
Then, in December 2010, two of them washed up on Opape Beach in New Zealand.
Article Here
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