Borrowed from here on David's Really Interesting Pages (and used with permission: thanks David). A sort of homage to this article from last month.
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My job at Impossible Pictures finished last week (though I am still doing the odd day here and there and am likely to go back to them in the future). Sigh, so much for digging myself out of that immense financial pit I'm still in. Anyway, today I start work on a new job involving... marine…
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Darren, did you notice that this would now seem to be the shortest Tet Zoo blog post ever?
Red shorts and a yellow slicker? That's not proper whale-dissecting kit.
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The bowhead always looked to me like it rammed into an iceberg at top speed and crunched its face, like a cartoon dog that chased a parked car.
Darren, what did you think of the claim a bowhead lifespan could exceed 200 years?
With no connection other than being about a dead marine amniote: a leatherback carcass was found the other day on a beach in Sweden. It had entered the narrow Ãresund strait between southern Sweden and Denmark. Not sure of how notable it is, but I haven't heard of it happening before. Pictures below.
http://www.sydsvenskan.se/sverige/article1379886/Skoldpaddsfynd-pa-Skan…
Re #5
It has happened once before, at almost the same season and place. A dead leatherback was found in Skälderviken, northwesten Scania on January 22nd 1949.
Matt, the record is 211 years estimated for a male bowhead ( in fact, the longest record for a mammal) in a study by George et al. (1999) - Age and growth estimates of bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) via aspartic acid racemization. Canadian Journal of Zoology 77:571â580.