Cast an ordinary whale ashore. It was more ancient an animal from legends kitoboyev: anybody never saw it

The nature is full of riddles – here one of them. On the coast of State of Alaska found a dead whale, in the beginning it accepted for banal northern plavuna. It still call northern berardius, klyuvoryl Byrd and Far East butylkonos. This lives plavun in moderate and subarctic waters, in northern part of the Pacific Ocean from the Sea of Okhotsk to width Southern Japan and State of California. Grows, and, in length up to 13 meters, klyuvoryl Byrd – the largest the representative of family klyuvorylovy. But having studied an animal it is more attentive, researchers understood that something here not so: it became clear that with a length of 7 meters (as...