Albicetus
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albicetus-0-4155761
title:
Albicetus
text:
Albicetus is a genus of stem-sperm whales that lived during the Miocene Epoch, around 15 million years ago, and was discovered in Santa Barbara, California in 1909. It was categorized for decades as belonging to a group of extinct walruses erroneously thought to be sperm whales. It was named Albicetus, meaning "white whale", is a reference to the leviathan in Herman Melville's classic 1851 novel Moby-Dick.
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Extinct genus of mammals
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albicetus
date created:
date modified:
2024-04-02T12:04:12Z
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13
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