Prehistoric whale found in inland Italy

AP/Yahoo ^ | 4/3/07 | ALESSANDRA RIZZO

[martin_fierro]

Paleo Whale-o Ping

[RightWhale]

Goethe would have liked this find. He was Minister of Mines along with his other duties and his theater hobbies. Pretty knowledgeable of geologic matters.

[PzLdr]

Should have looked past the headline. Thought Teddy Kennedy died.

[highlander_UW]

There is no evidence for a world wide flood...isn’t that what people say?

[Young Werther]

Ah but he really had a thing for all things Roman.

His "Roman Elegies" were written in the Classic Iambic Pentameter. In his diaries he noted that he could see the Roman out of his apartment room. He was so thrilled by all things Classic that he composed a poem and beat our the meter on the back of his "courtesan".

He had a whale of a time and like all Northern Europeans of the period would head south for the winter fun!!!

I should know... of course there were his depressing moments too!

[RightWhale]

Vico says there was. He is right about some things and well respected in Naples, so he could be right about that, too. It is not necessary for his thesis, but it fits well.

[RightWhale]

I wish I had read Italienishe Reise before I visited Italy. Nevertheless I saw much of the same thing except Sicily. Standard student tourism.

[llevrok]

genus: rosius odonnoliuos

[LiteKeeper]

Or, there was a Flood, as per the Bible, and the animal died in that location.

[blam]

"Or, there was a Flood, as per the Bible, and the animal died in that location."

Why would a flood cause the whale to die? They live in the water.

[george76]

Italian researchers have excavated the skeleton of a 4 million-year-old whale in the Tuscan countryside...

[SunkenCiv]

They know it’s prehistoric, because history requires writing, and whales don’t know how to write.

[SunkenCiv]

Mammal told me there'd be days like this.

Thanks martin_fierro and george76, not least because I got to use that joke ONE MORE TIME!!! ;')

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[ApplegateRanch]

last time I ran across a dead whale, I was sniffling & baleen my eyes out for days.

Wasn’t sad; it was the STENCH!

[ApplegateRanch]

They know it’s prehistoric, because history requires writing, and whales don’t know how to write.

Modern ones do. That's why they're called Wright Whales.

[ApplegateRanch]

Excavations for the whale skeleton began in February after an amateur researcher came across the bones while digging for fossils last year and alerted the museum. The skeleton was found about 100 yards underground...

Those are VERY dedicated amateur fossil hunters. I've never dug more than about 8 or 10 feet...on porpoise.

[george76]

nice...

Mammal told me there'd be days like this.

[SunkenCiv]

For all those, you deserve the big one:

[SunkenCiv]

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I think he did a little too much LDS.