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Eschrichtiidae or the gray whales is a family of baleen whale (Parvorder Mysticeti) with a single extant species, the gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus), as well as four described fossil genera: Archaeschrichtius (), Glaucobalaena and Eschrichtioides from Italy, [1] [2] and Gricetoides from the Pliocene of North Carolina. [3]
Eschrichtius is a genus of baleen whale containing two species: the gray whale (E. robustus) and the extinct Akishima whale (E. akishimaensis). [2] References
Full size fossil replica The bones were first found in 1961 by a father and son, Masato and Yoshio Tajima, in a riverbed in Akishima, Tokyo , lending it the nickname of the Akishima whale . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was prepared by locals, under the mentorship of Hiroshi Ozaki, and subsequently put into storage at the National Museum of Nature and Science ...
After a near-death experience, filmmaker Tom Mustill embarks on a quest to understand how sea mammals communicate with each other and humans.
“It’s a biblical story, it’s a love story, it’s a survival story and a story that is a love letter to Cape Cod,” said “In the Whale” director and producer David Abel, a Pulitzer ...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s daughter said he once used a chainsaw to cut off the head of a dead whale. The story was recounted by Kick Kennedy in a 2012 profile that went viral over the weekend.
Big Miracle, originally Everybody Loves Whales, is a 2012 drama film directed by Ken Kwapis. It stars Drew Barrymore and John Krasinski . The film is based on Tom Rose's 1989 book Freeing the Whales , which covers Operation Breakthrough , the 1988 international effort to rescue gray whales trapped in ice near Point Barrow, Alaska .
For a metaphysical love-conquers-all tale, “Grace and Grit” offers very little substance around such lofty concepts as existence, spirituality and romantic harmony. Written and directed by ...