[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?

[LiteKeeper]

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

[george76]

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

[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]

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.

[Graymatter]

There are still whales in the Mediterranean today.

[SunkenCiv]

I thought all Wales was on the coast.

I’m not gonna rimshot, because I’m sure you all just heard one in your heads.

Weird, all the keywords are listed in all lowercase now. Nice improvement.