When University of Pisa paleontologists first found a prehistoric whale's skeleton 13 years ago among rocks in southern ...
That doesn’t mean what would become Shasta County didn’t have its own amazing prehistoric critters ... long ― about the length of an adult sperm whale, according to Kelley.
(An alternative theory, advanced by paleontologist Hans Thewissen, is that whales descended from an animal similar to Indohyus, a prehistoric deerlike artiodactyl the size of a raccoon that was ...