Four-Tusked Walrus, New Whale and 19 Other Fossil Mammals Discovered at California Surf Spot

‘Bizarre’ Porpoise With Giant Underbite Is First Mammal of Its Kind in Fossil Record

March 13, 2014 —by Blake de Pastino 6866 1

An extinct species of porpoise discovered in California is revealing what paleontologists call “bizarre” features that have been seen in fish and birds but never before in mammals. Namely, the…

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Four-Tusked Walrus, New Whale and 19 Other Fossil Mammals Discovered at California Surf Spot

February 7, 2014 —by Blake de Pastino 8892 2

Ten years after a surfer first tipped him off to some bones eroding out of a sandy bank, a paleontologist says he has uncovered a massive cache of marine mammal…

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‘Bizarre’ Porpoise With Giant Underbite Is First Mammal of Its Kind in Fossil Record

Four-Tusked Walrus, New Whale and 19 Other Fossil Mammals Discovered at California Surf Spot

700,000-Year-Old Horse Found in Yukon Permafrost Yields Oldest DNA Ever Decoded

At 50, Ring-Tab Beer Cans Are Now Officially Historic Artifacts

16,000-Year-Old Tools Discovered in Texas, Among the Oldest Found in the West

Wyoming Wildfire Reveals ‘Massive’ Shoshone Camp, Thousands of Artifacts

New Dinosaur Found in Montana Reveals Tyrannosaurs’ True Face (They Didn’t Have Lips)

First-Ever Fossil Poop Excavated From L.A.’s La Brea Tar Pits

New Feathered Dinosaur From New Mexico Was Among the ‘Last of the Raptors’

America’s Earliest Traces of Potato Use Found at 10,900-Year-Old Utah Shelter

Rock Art in Chaco Canyon May Depict Ancient Solar Eclipse, Experts Say

World’s Best-Preserved Armored Dinosaur, a ‘Mona Lisa’ of Fossils, Found in Alberta