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Africa-Press – Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>The newly-discovered carnivorous whale lived during the Eocene Epoch (56 to 33.9 million years ago), a period when sea levels were higher and the area of present-day Alabama was flooded by a shallow ocean.<\/p>\n

A schoolgirl from Alabama recently found a massive ancient fossilized whale skull while digging on her family’s property.<\/p>\n

Over summer vacation schoolgirl Lindsey Stallworth – together with her science teacher, Drew Gentry, conducted excavations at the Stallworth family’s timber property in Monroe County, Alabama. After only a few hours of searching, they stumbled upon a huge bone sticking out of the hill.<\/p>\n

The original impetus to excavate the area was the fossilized shark teeth that Stallworth brought to class last year. She had been finding such teeth since she was 7 years old.<\/p>\n

According to the teacher, at first they had “very little idea” what they had found, except that it was a large vertebrate animal. Only later, with informational support from the US Geological Survey and the Geological Survey of Alabama, the preliminary age of the findings was established.<\/p>\n

After about a week of slowly removing excess stone with toothpicks and small hammers, the pair were able to expose a large tooth from the lower jaw of a large animal. The researchers identified the find from a photo of the tooth as an ancient predatory whale.<\/p>\n

The skull, nicknamed Karen, has been taken to the Alabama School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences for study. Lindsey Stallworth plans to resume excavations next year: some elements indicate the ground may hide other parts of the skeleton of the ancient animal.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Rwanda. The newly-discovered carnivorous whale lived during the Eocene Epoch (56 to 33.9 million years ago), a period when sea levels were higher and the area of present-day Alabama was flooded by a shallow ocean. A schoolgirl from Alabama recently found a massive ancient fossilized whale skull while digging on her family’s property. 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