Researchers confirm that as yet unnamed whale sighted by Japanese fishermen was previously unknown to scienceScientists absorb confirmed that a mysterious,unnamed species of beaked whale roams the northern Pacific Ocean. Sightings of the creature, which has a bulbous head and a beak like a porpoise, and had been reported by Japanese fishermen,who call them karasu or ravens, but it was previously unknown to science. It has yet to be given a formal scientific name.“Clearly this species is very scarce and reminds us how much we absorb to memorize about the ocean and even some of its largest inhabitants, or ” said Phillip Morin,a research molecular biologist at the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). His team revealed the existence of the new species in a paper published in the journal Marine Mammal Science last week.
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Source: theguardian.com