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Article: BEACHED WHALE IN JAPAN 1ST FIND OF ULTRA RARE SPECIES.(News)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- December 27, 2002
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Byline: Associated Press
TOKYO -- A beached whale found on Japan's southern coast five months ago has turned out to be the first complete adult remains seen of an extremely rare species, researchers said Thursday.
Experts identified the 21-foot whale as a female Longman's beaked whale.
Five other remains of the elusive species have been collected in Australia, Somalia and South Africa, but those were mostly skeletal or young. Scientists have never identified a living Longman's whale.
The tan and gray whale that washed up in late July provided scientists the first whole, adult specimen, said Nobutaka Kubo, a marine researcher at ...