FOUR Fabulous Fossilized Whale Jaws! | Nautilus Live

JUN 08 2023 · 12:00

The Pacific Remote Islands seamounts have been rich habitats for millions of years! While exploring seamounts in US waters north of Kingman Reef, our Corps of Exploration have come across not one, not two- but FOUR partial fossilized whale skulls! The first was sampled on Guyot 123 and identified as a fossilized portion of a beaked whale skull. ROV Hercules collected the sample over 2,100m below sea level. While age estimates are not possible from simple visual analysis, the bone has been laying on the seabed…