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Using molecular genetics tests similar to those used in crime investigations, researchers discovered that several samples of whale meat for sale in Japan came from illegally hunted species, including fin and humpback. The report in the current Science found that only 8 of 17 samples were genetically consistent with those from legal catches...
There's a new use for DNA testing: tracking illegal whaling practices, according to a report in Science magazine. Researchers used portable equipment to test whale meat being sold in Japan, where the product is an expensive delicacy. The presence of protected minke, fin and humpback whales as well as dolphin were found in several of the samples, indicating that banned meat was being sold. The genetic test could provide a policing mechanism in the future...
...California gray whale today became the first marine animal to be removed from the endangered species list. The gray beauties have been on the "protected" roster since 1967, but recent surveys estimate they now number 21,000 -- about equal to their population before the whalers nearly wiped them out. Though the gray whales' comeback has been declared a success by the government, some environmentalists worry that the move is premature and will send the wrong message to whale-hunting nations such as Norway and Japan...
Harvard came away from the Yale Whale with a12-1 win--its first victory in New Haven in manyyears--but the most impressive stat of the nightwas that the Bulldogs could muster only 11 shotson goal for the entire game...
...once called the great white whale of physics. The longer the "top" quark managed to elude capture, the more obsessed its pursuers became with the importance of hunting it down. For in the subatomic world, the top was, scientists believed, the sixth and last of the quarks -- pointlike particles that constitute the basic building blocks of matter. As the years passed, failure to find the top became a source of consternation and potential embarrassment to the theorists who swore it must exist...