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Mysterious Dead Whale Turns Out To Be New Species
Wednesday, July 27, 2016 12:42
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The carcass that beached near the Pribilof Islands community of St. George in June of 2014 appeared to be a beaked whale, but didn’t quite match the two recognized species in the genus Berardius that includes Baird’s and Arnoux’s beaked whales. Tissue samples were sent to Phillip Morin, a research molecular biologist at NOAA Fisheries’ Southwest Fisheries Science Center, for genetic testing that eventually showed it to be a new species.
“Clearly this species is very rare, and reminds us how much we have to learn about the ocean and even some of its largest inhabitants,” Morin said in a release …. http://www.forbes.com
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