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The Charlotte Whale

Charlotte, Vermont
· The Vermont State Fossil
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In 1849, an 11,000 year old Beluga Whale was found north of this site in what had been the Champlain Sea. Resident J.G. Thorp collected the bones, and naturalist Zadock Thompson assembled the skeleton now displayed in the Perkins Museum of Geology at UVM.
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