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Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph article dated January 24, 1963 partially reads, "What started as just an afternoon hike by an 11-year-old Reseda boy and his father turned into a major scientific find - the fossilized bones of a 16-million-year-old whale. Charles A. Smith, 6511 Tampa Ave., says the credit should go to his son Jeffrey - a rock-hunting zealot who wants to be a chemist. 'We were hiking in Sepulveda Canyon just south of Mulholland Dr. when we found one piece - we went back later and did some more digging just to satisfy the kids,' says Smith. Dr. Peter Furst, San Fernando Valley State College anthropologist, identified the fossil as being a whale bone from the Miocene era."
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