Tuscany

Whales surface in Tuscany

Posted by Jeff from Guardian UK

Make sure that Tuscan wine is whale-free: The 10-metre fossils, the biggest found in Italy, date from four to five million years ago when the region sat on the sea bed. "This is a spectacular find," said Elisabetta Cioppi, a palaeontologist at the University of Florence, of the most recent discovery of a whale fossil just 50cm below ground level in a wheat field near Orciano Pisano.

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