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Nature Releases New Model of Whale

Posted by michael on from the tastes-like-chicken dept.

Chromodromic writes "Yahoo! is running a story about Japanese scientists who say they have identified a new species of whale. The animal is a type of baleen, the family of whales that strain tiny plankton and other food from seawater. Apparently the discovery was made through the DNA analysis of nine already dead specimens. Expected follow-up: 'Japanese scientists announce extinction of newly discovered whale.'"

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  1. You forgot the most important question by crmartin · · Score: 2, Funny

    How did it taste?

  2. Translation by WTFmonkey · · Score: 4, Funny
    For the benefit of any whales who happen to be reading this,

    eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee awha-a awha-a .rrrrrrrrrrach rrrrrrrrrrrrach bwo bwo bwo. phssssssthpok phssssthpok aaaiiiieee. Aiieeee gRR!gRR!gRRooooo!

    iiiiii iiiiiiiii iiiii br-er-er-er-er-i br-er br-er-br-oi-oooooooo ooo ooaeaeae.

    1. Re:Translation by hoggoth · · Score: 2, Funny

      > phssssssthpok

      Was this whale talking to a Pak Protector?

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    2. Re:Translation by gnovos · · Score: 4, Funny

      iiiiii iiiiiiiii iiiii br-er-er-er-er

      Not to be a grammar cop, but I think you meant:

      iiiiii iiiiiBWOOOOO BWOOii iiiii br-er-er-er-er

      Conjugation counts.

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  3. Expected follow-up by Bowling+Moses · · Score: 2, Funny

    Expected follow-up: "Japanese food scientists announce newly discovered whale is tasty."

    But seriously, food science is still science. The happiest research chemist I ever met was the guy who develops new flavors of gummy bears. However, it's still at best highly questionable that any real research is done by Japanese (or whoever) whaling.