First Dissection Of The World’s Rarest Whale Reveals They Have 9 Stomach Chambers...As well as tiny vestigial teeth in the upper jaw.

IFL Science ^ | December 16, 2001 | Rachael Funnell

[dp0622]

That’s nothing. I have 4 stomach chambers and I don’t weight nearly as much as them.

Not yet :)

[Red Badger]

Ping!.....................

[Ezekiel]

Looks important.

[Jamestown1630]

That whales became land creatures and then went back to the sea is one of the strangest ideas in evolutionary science to me...

[Larry Lucido]

Was anybody there a Marine biologist?

[Cold Heart]

It’s called a spade tooth whale and the photographer unprofessionally cropped the front of the head off.

[Jamestown1630]

I think this is the same type:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2228565/Rare-spade-toothed-beaked-whale-seen-time-beached-calf-New-Zealand.html

[No name given]

Good question.

[SunkenCiv]

They should check the blowhole for cause of death.

[Cold Heart]

Thanks, good article to go with this one

[Jamestown1630]

It tickles me when scientists say that there’s still a lot of life out there that remains unknown to them.

Truth be told, most ‘life’ probably remains unknown.

[Thank You Rush]

So that’s where Jonah was!!!!

[Thank You Rush]

At least for awhile.....sorry - posted too soon.

[Verginius Rufus]

They don't explain the steamy purpose they think the hind legs had. They also don't say anything about how it tastes.

Maori science is evidently more advanced than western science.

[Publius]

They don't explain the steamy purpose they think the hind legs had.

The hind legs were for grappling during mating.

[BlueLancer]

Landwhales from "The Croods" ...

[Jamestown1630]

The statement doesn’t refer to the hind legs per se, but to the vestiges of the hind legs; they retained them (a pelvic structure) for mating purposes.

You had to click on the link:

https://www.iflscience.com/why-do-dolphins-and-whales-still-have-pelvic-bones-please-ladies-25634

[shaggy eel]

Maori science is evidently more advanced than western science.

,,, there's no failed students from Maori universties or other Maori educational institutions. Also, radical Maori Members of Parliament state that Maoris have superior genetics. The colours on the Maori flag are red, white and black - the same as on Hitler's flag.

[TalBlack]

Vestigial structures like this are considered remnants of evolution, demonstrating that they once served a greater purpose and, while now reduced, there’s not been evolutionary pressure to lose the trait entirely.

This all sounds very definite in the case of an animal they admit to knowing very little about.