'Coconut' shaped fossil gives clues to the origins of the pygmy right whale

Melbourne Museum palaeontologist Dr Erich Fitzgerald has discovered that a strange 'coconut' shaped fossil is possibly the first fossil evidence of the family Neobalaenidae, a family of whales which contains just one extant species, the pygmy right whale (Capera marginata).

Museum Victoria Blog: http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-blog/aug-2012/first-fossil-of-pygmy-right-whale/