Museum Victoria and Monash University have conducted “Dinosaur Dreaming” digs since 1995. Originally at the Flat Rocks site outside Inverloch, Victoria, it has evolved to include localities along the Bass and Otway Coasts. Since 2008 this blog has shared images and stories of crew taking part in excavations, fossil bones recovered, and fossilly things we get up to between digs. The most recent dig took place at Twin Reefs for 3 weeks in February 2025.
Monday, 13 August 2012
'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/
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