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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]
"But the sea and maritime life are central to many of his poems, both short (e.g., "Erosion Archived 2011-06-05 at the Wayback Machine," "Sea-Gulls," "Silences Archived 2011-06-05 at the Wayback Machine") and long, such as "The Cachalot" (1926), describing duels between a whale and its foes, a giant squid and a whaling ship and crew; The ...
Cooper was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Maree Edith Cooper, a teacher's aide, and William Wendell Cooper, a tool-and-die machinist. [2] Cooper was raised in Michigan and attended the University of Utah (B.A., 1979), [2] Hollins College (M.A., 1981), [2] and later, the creative writing doctoral program at University of Utah.
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 until it was transferred ...
Let Us Compare Mythologies is the first poetry book by Canadian poet and songwriter Leonard Cohen. Written in 1956, shortly after Cohen left McGill University where he studied English literature, it was first published as part of the McGill Poetry Series operated by Louis Dudek. In 2007, the book returned to print in a 50th anniversary ...
The first spade-toothed whale bones were found in 1872 on New Zealand’s Pitt Island. Another discovery was made at an offshore island in the 1950s, and the bones of a third were found on Chile ...
Fastitocalon, the central character in the poem, is the last of the mighty turtle-fish. This poem is well known to the Hobbits. It tells of how Fastitocalon's huge size, a "whale-island", [5] enticed sailors to land on its back. After the sailors lit a fire upon Fastitocalon, it dived underwater, causing the sailors to drown.
The book is unusual in that the size of the pages are not the same throughout the book, rather; it increases with the animals' sizes throughout the book. Also, the whale's tail takes up a page in itself and turning it is meant to represent the slapping motion. The time of day is also shown at the side of each page.