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Alaska ID Help


Emily F

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Hi! My mom brought me this back from the Bristol Bay Area in Alaska, and wanted to know if it was some sort of whale bone, or just a funny shaped rock. Texture is fairly porous on the elongated portion and more dense on the bulbous bit. Found on a coastal beach on Bristol bay. Measures around 6.5 by 11cm at its widest point. Thank you for the help! 

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Figured you deserved at least one answer....

I do not know,  and I think not,  but I once found the proximal end of a whale rib... and it had some similarities.. Now if you had to imagine what is the largest proximal end of a Blue Whale rib.... it would be lots bigger than this one.  Maybe @Boesse has seen that biggest possible rib....

 

The White Queen  ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast"

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