Scientists find new whale species

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There is a new whale in the ocean, Japanese scientists are reporting in the journal Nature.

Using analysis of bone structure and DNA, three researchers reported that some puzzling whales, first noticed by scientists in the late 1970s when Japanese whalers killed eight of them, represent a new species in a group of whales that have long been a subject of taxonomic confusion. They call the new whale Balaenoptera omurai.

The three scientists said the whales differed from other species in a jawbone, DNA and baleen -- the plates that hang from the upper jaw and are used to filter krill, plankton and other small creatures from sea water.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2003/11/21/2003076677

Let's kill'em and study'em!

I love Japan and Japanese so much but I sure wish the people would rise up and stop their country from killing whales!