A search-and-rescue team pulled a rare half-ton whale fossil from a Southern California backyard Friday, a feat that the team agreed to take on as a makeshift training mission. Members of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department Search and Rescue team lift a 16-17-million-year-old fossil lodged in a rock weighing about 2,000 pounds out of a hole in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.
Rare Whale Fossil Pulled From California Backyard
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