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Polar bear with carrot

Sunday, November 27, 2011

Sea Nymph

"A man who does not stop to look at beauty will soon be poor." Proverb, Benin.

A sixty seven foot fin whale, the second largest animal on the planet, was hit by a ship and found beached in San Diego last week. The whale was pregnant and the unborn fetus floated nearby. I saw several pictures of the whale on the beach and I had the thought that I have never seen such a beautiful creature.The pictures are all off the web, the great one on the bottom from the U.T., I think.

The whale was poked and prodded by the experts, tissue and genotyped, dissected and then the remains were hauled off further into the ocean.