Osaka whale fossil believed to be 1st of its kind

A whale skull discovered just over 50 years ago in Osaka City is now thought to be the world's first known trace of an Eden's whale, dating from between 4,000 and 8,800 years ago.The fossilized remains were reclassified in a study published recently in a paleontology journal by co-authors Yoshihiro Tanaka, curator of the Osaka Museum of Natural History, and Hiroyuki Taruno, a former curator of the same institution. The skull was originally thought to be of a Minke whale."The specimen adds a chronologically and geographically new record to the not well-known species" and suggests its modern …READ FULL ARTICLE