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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