Lindsey Stallworth, a teenager from Alabama, discovered the nearly complete skull of a 34-million-year-old whale while Fossil Hunting with her high school biology teacher. Stallworth, who has been searching for sharks' teeth on her family farm for years, invited her teacher, Andrew Gentry, to join her on a hunt. They found the rare and exciting discovery, which is likely to be a new species of Basilosaurid. The skull took months to extract, and the pair plans to return to the site next summer to search for the rest of the skeleton.

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