A whale skull fossil estimated to be some 12 million years old has been found on a beach in the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, according to a local museum. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The discovery was made by a Pennsylvania man, Cody Goddard, who was searching for fossils and shark\u2019s teeth, the Calvert Marine Museum said in a statement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The museum said that It took two months to extract and move the skull, which was encased in a hardened block of sediment and weighs around 650 pounds (295 kilograms). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A whale skull fossil estimated to be some 12 million years old has been found on a beach in the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, according to a local museum. The discovery was made by a Pennsylvania man, Cody Goddard, who was searching for fossils and shark\u2019s teeth, the Calvert Marine Museum said in a statement. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":89837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,31],"tags":[3332],"class_list":["post-89836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-america","category-news","tag-12-million-year-old-whale-fossil-skull-found"],"yoast_head":"\n