SAN DIEGO — Prehistoric whale bones found at a construction site in downtown San Diego might belong to an ancestor of the modern gray whale that died 600,000 years ago and measured 40 feet long ...

Several marine fossils, including whale bones ... much of San Diego. The beach would have been just to the east of San Diego State University, Hubscher said. The fossils were found in February ...

"The bones are about 120,000 years old," said Wriths. "We can tell because of the sedimentary deposits they were found in." Wirths said sea levels were higher back then. The whale died, and its ...

The local paleontology community is abuzz over what could be the remains of an extinct whale dating back some 5 million years — when a shallow ocean covered Santa Cruz County and walruses and ...

And then, researchers found the remains of whales—seven confirmed and likely more than 60 total skeletons in the dark depths, a phenomenon known as “whale fall.” Eric Terrill and Sophia ...

SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO — Efforts are underway to determine the species of an ancient whale fossil believed to be as much as 7 million years old found at the Prima Deshecha Landfill. A team of ...

UCT palaeontologists have discovered five-million-year-old whale bones at the West Coast Fossil ... if they are related to similar whale fossils found in the Mediterranean. The study was conducted ...