Archive for January 9th, 2016

Ontocetus oxymycterus: white whale fossil

A 15 million year-old fossil sperm whale specimen from California belongs to a new genus, according to a study published December 9, 2015 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Alexandra Boersma and Nicholas Pyenson from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. The authors of the study reanalyzed the large but incomplete Ontocetus oxymycterus […]