An archeologist and two paleontologists were able to find the fossil of a prehistoric whale, believed to be about four million years old.

Santa Cruz county had something historical to witness that excited bone bofins around the world as workers spotted a 4-million-year-old fossilized skeleton of a whale at a construction site.

During the construction work, a paleontologist monitoring the work found the fossil.

According to recent report, a huge whale fossil was found in Santa Cruz County helping scientists better understand the evolution of whales.

He also says, “Most places where you see a hill, somewhere there’s a fault line nearby pushing it up”.

Armstrong told the newspaper that the remains barrels its way into the hills via earthquakes and movements of tectonic plates. “They’re relatively inactive faults. But, it’s from lifting thousands, maybe billions of years ago”.

The remains have been placed in a plaster to maintain its relatively intact condition and give way to a safe and convenient transport from the site to the Paleo Solutions office located in Monrovia, where additional analysis will be performed.

“If the bone is softer than the rock, it makes it very difficult because it’s hard to chip through the rock without breaking the softer bones, but we’ll get it”, he said. In 2009, whale bones were excavated from the bluffs of East Cliff.

In addition, UC Santa Cruz paleontologist Matthew Clapham remarks that this find is rare because of the bones are quite intact.

“I consider the fossils you get alongside the shoreline, it is extra widespread to get a chunk of the cranium or the mind case or some bones”, Clapham advised the Sentinel. The fossil is of great importance for the entire science community first of all, because it has been well-preserved and, second of all, because it offers great insights into the evolution of whales. He added, “So this sounds like it’s a very impressive find”. The estimated time when the recovered whale lived is an interesting period as this is when the marine animals started to change from their ancestral groups.