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The grey white, long-beaked animal is the world's first cetacean -the order of whales, dolphins and porpoises -to be made extinct by man, concludes an international team that has conducted comprehensive surveys of its habitat.
The demise of the near-blind mammal also represents the first extinction of a large vertebrate (backboned animal) for more than 50 years, since overhunting claimed the Caribbean monk seal in the 1950s.
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Very sad news indeed. I guess if you are a marine mammal unfortunate enough to live in China it is just a matter of time.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/mai...eadolph108.xml