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This Massive Scientific Discovery Sat Hidden in a Museum Drawer for Decades

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The History of the Pelagornus Fossil

Dan Sandersei was the first to scientifically describe this fossil and we'll get to why he named it P Sandersei in a minute. Pelagornus was totally an accident of like luck and fortune Dan didn't find the fossil It had been excavated in South Carolina back in the 80s long before Dan ever laid eyes on it they were doing excavations at Charleston Airport.

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