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Minutes' newest correspondent filed her first report from Dominica where she reported on the threatened population of sperm ...
Ways to be a whale. The first whales on Earth had four limbs, looked something like large dogs and lived at least part of their lives on land. It took about 10 million years for their descendants ...
Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the biggest animal that has ever existed. Whales can be found in every ...
The Rice’s whale, spotted in the Gulf of Mexico, is one of the rarest and most critically endangered animals on Earth, with only about 51 remaining. What can we do to protect these remarkable ...
The whale is one of the rarest and most critically endangered animals on earth, with only about 51 remaining. ... we could see the first human-caused extinction of a whale species in history.
As big as a large sperm whale at more than 17 meters (55.78 feet) long, the newly named Cymbospondylus youngorum is the largest animal yet discovered from that time period, on land or in the sea.