Comments on: New Species of Tropical Pacific Beaked Whale?

By: MattBille

MattBille — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:15:12 +0000

IIRC, Palmyra was also the locale for a puzzling sighting by the vessel B.P Admiral of waht looked like a beaked whale with a higher, more sickle-shaped dorsal fin than any known species.

By: Tengu

Tengu — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:03:36 +0000

Thats sad, Kolobe, Many years back, I contacted several tours `we have the big five!` `woss der big five?` I reply with a lion like yawn. `I want to see some baboons, some livley springbok and in particular a real african wildcat`

they did not stock those supposedly common animals and so I stayed at home and spent the money on home decorating.

we have four speicies of ziphidae common (as common as they will ever be, I mean not lone occurances) in GB but no one knows much about them.

But i like them, if only for the fact that most are named for somebody

By: DARHOP

DARHOP — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:36:21 +0000

Kool.

By: kolobe

kolobe — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 09:46:22 +0000

It never fails to fascinate me what the ocean and the continents can reveal if only we took the time to look, sample and see what DNA testing reveals. We often know about or see these creatures but little do we realise that they are a “new species or genus”.

In South Africa, as a hunter and conservationalist I often have requests to see the big five, but when I show the people a rare bird, a four meter python 2m in front of them, or something I know they have not seen before the interest is nil, sometimes even disgust.

The oceans and lands are huge and harbour many creatures known to us or the indiginous people but not yet catorgorised.

By: mystery_man

mystery_man — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:08:45 +0000

I think we are going to find other new cryptid beaked whale discoveries in the coming years. Great article.

By: SOCALcryptid

SOCALcryptid — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 03:37:20 +0000

Thats great news. Another “LARGE MAMMAL” discovery. That makes three in the past two years. Another good day for science.