In 1981, he secretly entered Siberia to document a Soviet food-processing facility that was converting illegally harvested whale meat into feed for animals at a fur farm.
To understand how the pygmy whale fit into the lineage of whales, Marx and his colleagues carefully analyzed the skull bones and other fossil fragments from pygmy right whales and several other ancient cetaceans.
Imagining the prophet Jonah boarding his ship in Jaffa just days before he was cast into the sea and swallowed by a whale, I piled into the Israeli girls' car and continued my strange little pilgrimage.