#Chunks of sperm whale found in Queens after storm surge

#Chunks of sperm whale found in Queens after storm surge

“Chunks of sperm whale found in Queens after storm surge” Queens residents had more than flooding to blubber about Friday morning. Rockaway residents woke up after a night of drenching rain to find chunks of what appeared to be a sperm whale strewn across the neighborhood. Three precisely cut slabs were found on Rockaway Beach…

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#No, Loch Ness Monster isn’t a whale penis, professor says

#No, Loch Ness Monster isn’t a whale penis, professor says

“No, Loch Ness Monster isn’t a whale penis, professor says” What a Loch-block. A UK professor who hilariously proposed that Scotland’s iconic Loch Ness monster is actually a “whale’s penis” has since walked back his salacious claim. “There are no whales whatsoever in Loch Ness,” Michael Sweet, a molecular ecologist at the University of Derby,…

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#Skull of ‘marine monster’, a whale predecessor, found in Peru

#Skull of ‘marine monster’, a whale predecessor, found in Peru

“Skull of ‘marine monster’, a whale predecessor, found in Peru” LIMA ⁠— Paleontologists have unearthed the skull of a ferocious marine predator, an ancient ancestor of modern-day whales, which once lived in a prehistoric ocean that covered part of what is now Peru, scientists announced on Thursday. The roughly 36-million-year-old well-preserved skull was dug up…

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