{"id":164544,"date":"2015-03-17T21:30:20","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T01:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therevolutionmovie.com\/?news=when-whales-roamed-in-what-is-now-africa"},"modified":"2015-03-17T21:30:20","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T01:30:20","slug":"when-whales-roamed-in-what-is-now-africa","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/therevolutionmovie.com\/?news=when-whales-roamed-in-what-is-now-africa","title":{"rendered":"When whales roamed in what is now Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uplift associated with the Great Rift Valley of East Africa and the environmental changes it produced have puzzled scientists for decades because the timing and starting elevation have been poorly constrained.\u200bNow paleontologists have tapped a fossil from the most precisely dated beaked whale in the world &#8211;\u00a0and the only stranded whale ever found so far inland on the African continent &#8211;\u00a0to pinpoint for the first time a date when East Africa&#039;s mysterious elevation began.The 17 million-year-old fossil is from the beaked Ziphiidae whale family. It was discovered 740 kilometers inland at an elevation of 620 meters in modern Kenya&#039;s harsh desert region, said vertebrate paleontologist Louis L. 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