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What Happened To This Poor Dolphin? (Whale?)


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Found this cetacean vertebra yesterday (8/30/15)..

It seems to exhibit some pathology or maybe a healed fracture or something. It is probably the strangest vert of its kind that I've ever found. All opinions welcomed. Thanks in advance!

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Well, it's a pathology - there's probably only a half dozen people on earth knowledgeable on cetacean pathology to diagnose this, and I'm not one of them; so don't be surprised that nobody on the forum is going to tell you what you'd like to hear. It's an interesting specimen, and it's a style of pathology I've not seen before - so that's pretty neat, but it's not one of the "easy" ones I could identify.

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So, to reinforce Bobby's comment- (by the way he is one of the foremost experts in the world on marine mammal paleontology)

I hunt in Florida and I know a lot about fossils of the US Southeastern coast, and I have found hundreds of beat_up dolphin verts.

If there is a pathology here, how about providing a very clear photo and a detailed description on what you believe the pathology to be?

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

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