Albicetus

Albicetus is a genus of stem-sperm whales that lived during the Miocene Epoch, around 15 million years ago, and was discovered in Santa Barbara, California in 1909. It was originally wrongly categorized for decades as belonging to a group of extinct walruses. It was named Albicetus, meaning "white whale," is a reference to the leviathan in Herman Melville's classic 1851 novel Moby-Dick, centering on Captain Ahab's obsession with a huge white sperm whale.[1][2]
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