I have a bet going with some friends that verifiable evidence of Bigfoot will be discovered in the next fews years. It turns out I am not alone in my insanity – there is a “long bet” going here between Kevin Kelly and Stewart Brand on this very matter.

 

In this vein, the news has just offered something quite unexpected, a true “living fossil”:

 

 

 

Found: Whale Thought Extinct for 2 Million Years

By Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer | LiveScience.com –

 

The pygmy whale, a mysterious cetacean …

The pygmy right whale, a mysterious and elusive creature that rarely comes to shore, is the last living relative of an ancient group of whales long believed to be extinct, a new study suggests.

 

The findings, published Tuesday in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, may help to explain why the enigmatic marine mammals look so different from any other living whale.

 

“The living pygmy right whale is, if you like, a remnant, almost like a living fossil,” said Felix Marx, a paleontologist at the University of Otago in New Zealand. “It’s the last survivor of quite an ancient lineage that until now no one thought was around.”

 

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