Sentences with phrase «whale skull bones»

Meanwhile, Osborne championed labeling the beer with whale skull bones, and an Internet link to learn more.

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But most of the bones are marine: scraps of whale bone, jaw and skull fragments of harp seals, a bit of inner ear of a hooded seal.

The new genus and species of extinct baleen whale is based on a skull and associated bones unearthed from the Kokoamu Greensand, a noted fossil - bearing rock unit in the South Canterbury and Waitaki district from the Oligocene period, which extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years ago.

Besides fossil bones of the skull and mandibles, the rock containing the skeleton showed perfect casts of the whale baleen.

Although the arrangement of bones in its face and skull indicate that Janjucetus is most closely related to modern - day baleen whales, the species had teeth and not baleen.

The remains include several skulls, snout fragments and a number of postcranial bones representing two species of primitive whales known as pakicetids: wolf - size Pakicetus attocki and fox - size Ichthyolestes pinfoldi.

Both of these areas produced an abundance of well - preserved Late Cretaceous and Eocene - aged fossils, including those of birds, plesiosaurs (long - necked marine reptiles; numerous isolated bones and at least one partial skeleton), bony fishes (including several skulls and partial skeletons), sharks, whales, unidentified vertebrates, and a variety of beautifully - preserved invertebrates (e.g., ammonites, nautiloids, gastropods, bivalves, crustaceans).