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According to the report, fossils found in Hokkaido more than a decade ago have recently been identified as belonging to a new right whale species. The fossil bones were first discovered by a citizen of Sapporo along the Toyohira River in the capital of the northernmost Japan's prefecture in October 2008, leading to a Sapporo Museum Activity Center team's years of work to unearth a nearly complete skeleton.
The team called the whale "Megabalaena sapporoensis," or "big right whale of Sapporo."
The report added that they further found that the bones, including vertebrae and phalanges, were about nine million years old and that the whale in the family Balaenidae, or right whales, which is believed to have existed in the Late Miocene, was approximately 13 meters long, larger than its most recent ancestors but smaller than distant ones.
Source: PNA / (Jiji Press)
Image of the new fossil
The team called the whale "Megabalaena sapporoensis," or "big right whale of Sapporo."
The report added that they further found that the bones, including vertebrae and phalanges, were about nine million years old and that the whale in the family Balaenidae, or right whales, which is believed to have existed in the Late Miocene, was approximately 13 meters long, larger than its most recent ancestors but smaller than distant ones.
Source: PNA / (Jiji Press)
Image of the new fossil
