Ancient whale fall from California's Año Nuevo Island one of youngest, most complete known

A fossilized whale skeleton excavated 20 years ago amid the stench and noise of a seabird and elephant seal rookery on California's Año Nuevo Island turns out to be the youngest example on the Pacific coast of a fossil whale fall and the first in California, according to University of California, Berkeley, paleontologists.

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<p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news108921179.html">Ancient whale fall from California's Año Nuevo Island one of youngest, most complete known</a></p> <p>A fossilized whale skeleton excavated 20 years ago amid the stench and noise of a seabird and elephant seal rookery on California's Año Nuevo Island turns out to be the youngest example on the Pacific coast of a fossil whale fall and the first in California, according to University of California, Berkeley, paleontologists.</p>