Mysterious New Whale Species Discovered in Alaska

7/27/2016
The remains of what was thought to be a Baird's beaked whale washed up on Alaska's St. George city shores, in the Pribilof Islands, some two years ...
For decades, Japanese fishermen have told stories about the existence of a dark, rare beaked whale that they called karasu – the "raven." But now ...
Back in June of 2014, a dead whale washed up on the shore of the Pribilof Islands community of St. George in the middle of Alaska's Bering Sea.
DNA analysis of 178 beaked whale samples has turned up an entirely new species: a black variation in the northern Pacific that is a rare sight even for ...
Reid Brewer measuring a whale carcass in Alaska Photo credit: Don Graves. In 2004 Reid Brewer of the University of Alaska Southeast measured an ...
A new research paper has unveiled about the discovery of an earlier unknown species of beaked whale that is present in the deep waters of the North ...
Whales are hard to miss, even in the vast underwater wilderness of the oceans. So it's surprising that we're still discovering new species of whales.
The only skeleton of the new species in the United States hangs on display in Unalaska High School, in Alaska's Aleutian Islands. The whale was ...
ANCHORAGE (KTUU) There was something strange about the whale that washed ashore St. George Island a couple summers ago, strange enough ...
Two years ago, the remains of a dead whale believed to be a Baird's beaked whale washed up on the shore of Alaska's St. George city in the Pribilof ...
7/26/2016
An international team of scientists identified a new species of beaked whale after conducting specimen analysis. Apparently, the new species called ...
"She was the one who said, 'This looks like a Baird's beaked whale, but it doesn't,'" said Phillip Morin, a research molecular geneticist with the ...
Mysterious beaked whale washed up on Pribilof Islands is 1 of only 8 known specimens • Michelle Ridgway, St. George community collect crucial ...
This skeleton hanging at Unalaska High School is the only full specimen of a new species of whale, long known but only recently classified. (Photo ...
This skeleton hanging at Unalaska High School is the only full specimen for a new species of whale, long known but only recently identified.
When the remains of an unidentified whale washed ashore on a tiny Alaskan island in the Bering Sea in June 2014, a scientific search was launched ...
(Newser) – When a 24-foot whale carcass washed up on the beach of a remote Alaskan island in 2014, a researcher was pretty sure it was a dark ...
An international group of researchers believe they may have discovered a new species of beaked whale. This corpse, which washed up St. George ...
A new species of incredibly rare beaked whale was identified after one of the animals washed ashore on an island in the Bering Sea and, after an ...
In 2004 Reid Brewer of the University of Alaska Southeast measured an unusual beaked whale that turned up dead in Alaska's Aleutian Islands.
IMAGE: The only skeleton of the new species in the United States hangs on display in Unalaska High School, in Alaska's Aleutian Islands. The whale ...
Advances in DNA research have helped scientists identify five new cetaceans in the past 15 years but two were dolphins and most were simple ...
Scientists say a dead whale on a desolate beach and a skeleton hanging in a high school gym are a new species. Yet experts have never seen one ...

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