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Wednesday, September 05, 2012

Ancient Dolphin Fossil Found on Maryland Shores

Millions of years ago, Washington D.C. was beachfront property along the Atlantic Ocean, and much of our region was underwater.

A fascinating fossil from that time was found earlier this year on a beach along the Calvert Cliffs in Maryland and is now at the Calvert Marine Museum. It's a skull, almost 3-feet-long, of an extinct dolphin with a long, thin snout.

The museum's curator of paleontology, Stephen Godfrey, says an amateur collector made the discovery in an area normally covered by water.

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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 5, 2012 at 1:57 PM

    I have about 2/3's of a megaladon tooth from Calvert Cliffs. It's not even whole and is almost as big as my hand. Dated 65 million years old

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 5, 2012 at 5:32 PM

    He wouldn't be allowd to die on the beach this day and time. He'd be dragged back out to deep water.

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