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New Species of Whale Discovered
dlesko writes: "Scientists have discovered a new species of whale, a startling find made through DNA analysis of some of the marine mammals that washed ashore in California over the past three decades."
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Where be my harpoon?
That night, in the mid-watch, when the old man - as his wont at intervals - stepped forth from the scuttle in which he leaned, and went to his pivot-hole, he suddenly thrust out his face fiercely, snuffing up the sea air as a sagacious ship's dog will, in drawing nigh to some barbarous isle. He declared that a whale must be near. Soon that peculiar odor, sometimes to a great distance given forth by the living sperm whale, was palpable to all the watch; nor was any mariner surprised when, after inspecting the compass, and then the dog-vane, and then ascertaining the precise bearing of the odor as nearly as possible, Ahab rapidly ordered the ship's course to be slightly altered, and the sail to be shortened.
The acute policy dictating these movements was sufficiently vindicated at daybreak, by the sight of a long sleek on the sea directly and lengthwise ahead, smooth as oil, and resembling in the pleated watery wrinkles bordering it, the polished metallic-like marks of some swift tide- rip, at the mouth of a deep, rapid stream.
"Man the mast-heads! Call all hands
If voting were effective, it would be illegal by now.
I suppose the Japs will have to go out and catch a few thousand of them for "research purposes"
-- We don't understand software, and sometimes we don't understand hardware, but we can *see* the blinking lights
Why is it that a story about a new species of whale does not tell us what the new species' name is,
"New Whale"
what the similar species name is
"Classic Whale"
or what factors of the DNA distinguish the two from each other
gaca - tcag - gacc - caga - ttag - cacg - ggat - ttcg - gcta - aacc - tatc - ccag - gccg - agac - gacc - caga - tcag - gacc - tatc - ccag - gcaa - aacc - tatc - ccag - gccg - agac - gacc - caga - tcag - gacc - tatc - ccag - gcaa - tcag
Glad I could help.
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