Peter de Kruijff

And then there was a new fossil, even they found a skull of a species they named in this study.

Okay.

A whole new species.

Yeah.

A whole new species of whale that's extinct.

Okay.

But

Yeah, a whole new species of beaked whale, which is Pterocetus diamantine, but it's in that same sort of family as that last beaked whale I just talked about.

So they're the only two we know of that particular family.

But we just, you know, we can see that beaked whales have been around this part of the planet for a very, very long time.

It varies, whale fall to whale fall, but in some weird ways it's very ethereal looking.

kind of spooky.

Depending on what stage it's at, you see quite regularly these really large vertebrae.

So, you know, think your spine bones, but a whale's spine bones.

There's one image of these sort of splayed out ribs

Kind of looks like angel wings, I guess.

Quite chalky and textural, the actual whale, what's left of the whale.

But then just covered in all these sort of alien-like... Have you ever watched the alien movies?

I have.

A lot of things like brittle stars and the like kind of look like facehuggers.