Whale Illustration (IMAGE)

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Whale Illustration

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This illustration shows one plausible way, and the most likely, in which the three calluses preserved on the whale rib came about: a bite from one of the large Pliocene sharks with which these huge baleen whales had to contend.

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Illustration by Timothy Scheirer © CMM

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