She said the creature was probably quite young as it was only just bigger than a 50 pence piece.

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She is the most beautiful creature he has ever beheld.

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She soon came to epitomise a creature now threatened with extinction: the public intellectual.

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She is investigating the strange dance the creature does on top of its ball of muck.

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Short, stocky, with an enormous nose and hooded eyes, she was far from the sweet Bambi creature promoted in womens' magazines.

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But every time she gets near a whale, the creature dives.

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"He's definitely a creature of habit, " she says.

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The team is determined to go back to the future and stop her before she can hurt anyone else but is forced to split up when a fracture in time causes another destructive creature to appear.

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