The worms, whose official genus name is Osedax, are about 1 inch (3 centimeters) long and were discovered on a whale carcass in 2002.
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In April 2002 a dead minke whale was washed up on the coast of Normandy, France, with nearly a kilogram of plastic bags in her stomach that she had mistaken for food.
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Without looking away, she then punches a button to activate a satellite phone and calls in the whale's coordinates to a worker on the ground.
In thirty years, our obsessive application of this concept narrowly to fossil fuels and CO2 production will seem as misguided as a nineteenth century fixation on conserving whale oil and cleaning up horse manure in the city streets.
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The RNLI is warning treasure hunters to take care after a rare piece of whale vomit was found on Morecambe beach.
For conservationists, it has come to represent everything that is wrong with the modern whale hunt: mechanized slaughter on a vast scale.
The turtle is the latest in a large number of sea creatures, including a 40 tonne fin whale, to be found on beaches around Wales.
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JPMorgan Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon will not appear Friday, after testifying at a pair of hearings last June on the London Whale matter.
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But as readers of the Old Testament know, Jonah emerges from the whale a changed man, redeemed and willing to carry on God's work.
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Jackie Hildering of the Marine Education and Research Society, a guest naturalist on board, explained that the baleen whale was trying to intimidate the orcas to avoid being attacked, since Biggs orcas kill humpbacks.
Greg Nannup, owner of Indigenous Tours WA, was embarking on a swirling, multi-strand tale of whale beachings, child spirits and rainbow serpents.
There was a collective gasp of awe and astonishment from everyone on deck as the humpback whale breached about 200 yards away.
On their way out of the inlet, one whale breaches in a great, corkscrew leap and sends a splash toward us: Good-bye.
Other images on show include a pygmy seahorse camouflaging itself among coral, a sperm whale investigating the photographer, and a bee-eater bird catching a dragonfly for his mate.
Depending on the circumstances a number of licences need to be granted before a whale can be moved and disposed of, including from the Marine Management Organisation (MMO).
And, on the beach itself, Gotfod points out canine footprints circling the putrefying carcass of a humpback whale, covered in ghost crabs.
Expect Dimon to give an update tomorrow on any further losses stemming from the London Whale while likely reiterating that the incident was a stupid error.
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