Thursday, April 30, 2015

Call Him Isthmia: Moby Dick’s New Cousin 




Call him isthmia.

Well. More properly: Nanokogia isthmia.

This is the name of an extinct species of pygmy sperm whale recently discovered in Central America–by Dr. Jorge Velez-Juarbe and an international team of researchers.

The find, published in the journal PLOS ONE, reveals an unexpected level of complexity in the evolution of the spermaceti organ, the mysterious anatomical feature involved in sound generation and echolocation.

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