The skeleton of a whale thought to have swum the seas more than 3,000 years ago has been discovered in Samut Sakhon, just west of Bangkok. Varawut Silpa-archa, Natural Resources and Environment minister, has visited the site of the discovery in Amphaeng, Ban Phaeo district, where the whale bones were excavated on November 6.

The rotten carcass of a Bryde’s whale was found in a mangrove forest on the coast of Samut Prakan’s Phra Samut Chedi district on Thursday morning.