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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"New"?

[Anonymous Coward]

Face it editors, this is a previously unknown or a freshly discovered type of whale, but it isn't NEW. These have been swimming the oceans for a long time.

I sure hope they code with more word accuracy than they edit..

whales, these large animals everyone loves

[Cy Guy]

"It's clear that even for whales, these large animals everyone loves, there's a lot we don't know,. . . Scientists based the last identification of a new species of beaked whale, in 1991, in part on specimens found for sale in a fish market in Peru."

The Japanese especially love whales, that's why they are always undertaking 'scientific studies' of whale populations, which (totally coincindentally) results in having to sell the meat of the studied whales for local consumption in Japan. Considering that technology exist to remove miniscule DNA samples from the whales to study their popluation and migration patterns, one has to wonder why the Japanese instead choose to kill the animals they are trying to learn about.

There was a massive campaign in the US when it discovered dolphins were being killed by tuna fisherman, and protests led to labelling tuna as tuna as 'Dolphin Safe'. What we need now is a world-wide campaign to to label TVs, cars, and audio systems as being made in countries where Whale is not on the menu.