FISHERS FIND 10 MLN YEAR OLD FOSSIL IN WESTERN TURKEY

"We found some abnormal stones when we were fishing off Kalonora Brook and we handed them over to Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University for further examination," Ismail Gurlen, the head of the association, told AA correspondent.

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The head of a regional fishers association said that they found a 10-million-year-old whale fossil when they were fishing off Gelibolu, Canakkale.

"We found some abnormal stones when we were fishing off Kalonora Brook and we handed them over to Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University for further examination," Ismail Gurlen, the head of the association, told AA correspondent.

Gurlen said the findings were then sent to Izmir's Ege University, and experts in the university proved that the stone was a fossil.

A paleontologist at Natural and Historical Research Center of the Ege University said that it was a fossil belonging to an extinct whale."

It is the arm and rib bone fossil of a whale that lived almost 8-10 million years ago," paleontologist Serdar Mayda said.

Mayda said it was the first baleen whale fossil found in Turkey.

Baleen whales are characterized by having baleen plates for filtering food from water, rather than having teeth.


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