Editorial photo #433574 Human Interest
Bulgaria Prehistoric Whale
The expert from Varna's Natural science museum Stoyan Vergiev shows to the press a piese from a prehistoric whale's vertebra which lived before about 15 to 10 million years during the Miocene near Bulgaria's Black Sea town of Varna, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015. The prehistoric whale's vertebra was discovered about a month ago thanks to the report of a bypasser. The sea tides destroyed some of the fossils. The lack of skull does not allow to identify the whale on the species level, but it can certainly be said that it belongs to the genus Cetotherium. The estimated length of the whale was 2.5 meters. Whales of this kind weighed a ton. The prehistoric whales lived on plankton that they filtered from seawater. The remain belongs to the so. Called. Baleen (toothless) whale category. Photo by: /Impact Press Group/NurPhoto
