Talk:Tropical bottlenose whale

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I was reading an article about a strange carcase of a whale found this week in Australia. After reading the article, i came over to wikipedia to see what it offer about the strange whale. Both article agree in that the whole is rare, but wikipedia says there has never been a complete specimen found while the washingtonpost article says a single whole specimen has been found. One has to be wrong factually and i can't figure out which. These are the quotes that contradict each other.

Wikipedia

"The species has only ever been identified from two skulls. No full-body specimen has ever been found alive or dead anywhere in the world".

Washingtonpost

"Scientists initially thought the 20-foot female may be a Longman's beaked whale - a species so rare that only one other complete adult specimen has been found in the world." Here is washingtonpost article [1] You need registration, but posting the article here may lead to copyright issues. There is tricks out there to go around the retarded registration. I did check BBC for article about this whale, just to figure out which side to lean on, but it looks like they don't have one yet.

In fact at least three complete specimens have washed up so far, and this whale is much more documented than the article suggests, so I gave it an overhaul. I have yet to hear anything about a new specimen from Australia, but it wouldn't surprise me, that's where the species was orignally known from after all.Cameron 03:05, 11 November 2005 (UTC)Reply

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