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Jim Borrowman, who has operated the museum for more than two decades, confirmed the Bryde’s whale was gifted by the ‘Namgis ...
Your ancestors were hauling massive whale bones up steep cliffs and dragging them miles inland to their cave homes 20,000 ...
Luckily, three of the centre’s skeletons — a Risso’s dolphin, a Dall’s porpoise and a pygmy sperm ... a process to take every rib off the vertebrae and separate everything.
A total of 13 gigantic vertebrae – one of which weighed nearly 200 kilograms ... Today's cetaceans include dolphins, whales and porpoises, but their early ancestors lived on land, some resembling ...
Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing information about the habitat of the world’s only freshwater porpoise Almost 300 ...
The scientists pored over more than 700 ancient Chinese poems from the Tang through the Qing dynasties that mention the Yangtze finless porpoise to find out where and when poets described seeing ...
Ancient poems tell the story of charismatic river porpoise's decline over the past 1,400 years Date: May 5, 2025 Source: Cell Press Summary: Endemic to China's Yangtze River, the Yangtze finless ...