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Beaked whale with Sinhala name retakes its place in history

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The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka)

Publication Date
2014-02-24

This week, an enigmatic whale first described studying a specimen found in Sri Lanka has been reclassified as a new marine mammal species. The whale species – member of a family known as beaked whales for their elongated beak-like snouts – bears an interesting history.

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