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If all goes well in the next few months, Chicago will be rewarded with a large, wrinkled, 120-pound bundle of joy next summer when Mauyak, a 16-year-old beluga whale, is expected to give birth at t… ...
As the metaphor suggests the whale family tree has a branching pattern, and some of these branches terminated without leaving any living descendants.
Rare, 7-million-year-old fossils of two extinct pygmy sperm whales are helping researchers learn about the evolution of the ocean's largest toothed whale, a new study finds ...
Andrewsiphius, one of the archaeocetes ('archaic whales') described in the paper, was first described in 1975 as a fully aquatic toothed whale. This identification was revised in 1998 after more ...
“Call Me Albicetus”: Fossil Sperm Whale Is Named in Honor of Moby-Dick. A Smithsonian team of scientists re-examined a fossil sperm whale for the first time in 90 years and created an entirely new ...
Sperm Whales are truly giants of the aquatic world. Their immense size is nothing less than jaw-dropping. So, seeing an entire Sperm Whale family cuddled together to "have a conversation," making ...
It sounds like someone created an animal by pulling anatomical parts out of a hat. Researchers discovered an ancient whale skeleton in Peru that has four legs, webbed feet and hooves on its toes.
The behemoth of the family, the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus), made famous by Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" (1851), can reach about 52 feet (15.8 m) in length.
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