There’s a newly named species of whale that you won’t find on any posters or in any books… yet. It’s Rice’s whale, endemic to US waters and highly endangered. The entire 37' skeleton of the specimen (adult male) representing this new species was brought to the...

While jogging on a Wellfleet, Massachusetts beach after work one day in 1971, a young music teacher stumbled upon the partially buried skeletal remains of a long-finned pilot whale.   He collected all the bones and discovered that the bones, played like a xylophone,...