Word: hyperoodon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coast of France and was reported to be the first unlegendary one which had over been observed, Glover M. Allen '01, associate professor of Zoology and curater of Mammals at the University Museum, has identified the creature as a bottle-nosed whale, known to scientists as Hyperoodon Ampullatum...
...Nonsense!" cried Dr. William King Gregory from across the sea. The hyperoodon or bottle-nosed whale, explained the Curator-in-Chief of Living & Extinct Fishes in Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, has an enormous head and a ridiculously short neck. Rapidly Curator Gregory ran through the list of creatures living & extinct which the monster resembled. It had the neck of a sea lion, the head of a sea cow, the body of a long dugong. But the parts did not fit. It could not, he concluded, be what it seemed...
That seemed safe enough. Many aquatic mammals-whales,*dolphins, porpoises-belong to the order of cetacea. Thereupon Professor Corbiere grew bold. "If I dare risk a hypothesis," he ventured. "I would say that we have here a kind of hyperoodon from the North Atlantic...
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