photo credit Allen J. Schaben & LA Times
Well damn, these things are just popping up all over the place, aren't they?
The San Diego zoo is home to 4,001 animals. That last one? They had no idea about it. It's been dead for 3 million years.
Construction workers were digging a hole for a new storm-water drainage system when they hit something special.
"I just kind of made eye contact with him. He knew right away that I had heard something big," says Gino Calvano, a paleontologist at the San Diego Natural History Museum.
Paleontologists had been on site because it was suspected that during the dig they might uncover shells or shark teeth...but never a whale!
Full article here (LA Times)
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