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Oh, Bystander, I do see your point about a few new species and many, many, many disappearing. I'm not trying to stir things up here, I just remembered hearing about the whales a couple of years ago so I posted it.

I guess that's open to your interpretation. I read the story and a couple of related stories and [to me] it sounds like it's a new species in the last 25 years.

Here is a blurb from an article about a new species of whale. I attached the article if anyone is interested. June 26, 2002 - In the mid-1970s, four rare beaked whales washed ashore dead on the coast near San Diego, California. James Mead, a leading authority on beaked whales from the...

I know there is no medical research that backs up the idea of identical twins "running" in families...but, it sure is strange how some families have an unually high number of identicals and others don't.

That was great. I'm going to share it with with my friends at work.