Title: Charlotte's bones
Description: In 1849, a crew building a railroad through Charlotte, Vermont, dug up strange and beautiful bones in a farmer s field. A local naturalist asked Louis Agassiz to help identify them, and the famous scientist concluded that the bones belonged to a beluga whale. But how could a whale s skeleton have been buried so far from the ocean?
Subjects: Stratigraphic Geology, GlaciersPleistocene-Holocene boundary, White whale, Juvenile literature, Life cycles (Biology), Fossils, Fossils, juvenile literature
Time periods: Holocene