Ancient beaked whale fossil caught by fisherman

This video says about itself:

16 January 2009

In the deep waters of the Bahamas, Wild Chronicles and Crittercam® gain a fleeting glimpse of a rare and most remarkable sea creature, the beaked whale. Incredibly, Crittercam® captures the first video of a birth among these rare whales. What you see will astound you.

Translated from Ecomare museum on Texel island in the Netherlands:

Thursday, December 25th, 2014

A nice discovery! A piece of bone that Ecomare received in October turns out to be a piece of skull from a beaked whale. The bone was petrified, and therefore probably from the early Pleistocene, about 2 million years old. Ecomare received the bone from the Vonk family. The crew of their fishing vessel, the TX1, had this year netted it in the North Sea, near the English coast.

Fishing ships with TX are from Texel. Scientists cannot say which beaked whale species exactly this was.

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