Whale
name: label: Discipline
content: Paleobiology
notes: label: Description
content: This object is part of the Education and Outreach collection, some of which are in the Q?rius science education center and available to see.
label: Notes
content: femur
label: Notes
content: This femur, or thigh bone, is from a Cetacea, a large and distinct order of carnivorous aquatic mammals commonly known as whales. Ancient whales once had small external legs used by these aquatic mammals to walk on land. Modern whales no longer have these limbs, but do still have the empty sockets near the pelvic bone where the femur would have been. This bone is 2.5cm thick and measures 4.5cm x 3.5cm.
label: Number of objects in this record
content: 3
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 Dec 2020
topic: label: Topic
content: Education & Outreach
setName: label: See more items in
content: Q?rius, The Coralyn W. Whitney Science Education Center
publisher: label: Scientific Name
content: Cetacea
identifier: label: USNM Number
content: EO53478
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Education and Outreach collections
taxonomicName: label: Taxonomy
content: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Tetrapoda, Mammalia, Artiodactyla, Whippomorpha