“These are animals the size of elephants that we just can’t find. They’re a mystery.”
One of the most elusive animals on the planet, the True's beaked whale, has been filmed in the wild for the first time ever, scientists announced Tuesday.
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The footage was taken by students on an educational trip in the Azores in 2013, but only released Tuesday as part of a new paper meant to shed light on a creature few people have ever seen in the wild.
Beaked whales, identifiable by their dolphin-like noses, spend the vast majority of their lives deep below the ocean's surface, assisted by oblong, torpedo-shaped bodies.
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Most of what scientists know of True's beaked whales comes from beached carcasses, so the roughly 46-second video clip was a boon for scientists.
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