This post combines a couple of my interests--history, law schools, whales. Just not in the way you might think.
Thomas Jefferson School of Law is building a new building--heard great things about it from Deven Desai. And they've turned up some old--really ancient--whale bones as they've been preparing the site. That's on top of the half-million year old Mammoth bones they found earlier in excavation. The San Diego Union Tribune has the story:
The illustration (of the Mammoth) is from Thomas Jefferson's website on the discoveries.Yesterday, the jaw, shoulder blade, neck bone and upper spine of a baleen whale, possibly 600,000 years old, were found in the reddish soil where excavation is taking place for the $68 million project. The ocean-going creature might have been 40 feet long.
Our friends over at co-op are likely to have more of the story.
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