Whale Vertebra Fossil Ornament

Curiosities & Oddities

A single fossilized whale vertebra from Morocco's Miocene sea beds, about ten million years old, ochre and gray mineral where bone once was, and entirely one of one.

At a glance Fossilized whale vertebra, Miocene, roughly ten million years old From marine deposits in Morocco, legally collected under license Weighs between 0.6 and 1.0 kilograms; each specimen unique in shape and heft

Ten million years ago, a whale swam a shallow sea where the Moroccan desert lies today. This is one bone of its spine, turned to stone, and it sits on a shelf with the particular gravity of something once very large…