Marine Biologist Uncovers An Underwater Secret After Something Fishy Caught Her Attention

Published on 10/22/2023
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What Was the Team’s Initial Thoughts About Their Sighting?

Further investigation and photo identification led the researchers to believe that they could have been observing a Bryde’s whale. The Indo-Pacific Ocean is home to this big species of whale, which prefers warmer waters like those of the Indian Ocean. De Vos told National Geographic that after additional examination, she began to suspect it may be a distinct species. What sort of marine animal was this? “The lighter lower right jaw and chevron were key characteristics that made me question what I had seen because Bryde’s whales are essentially uniformly black.”

What Was The Teams Initial Thoughts About Their Sighting

What Was The Teams Initial Thoughts About Their Sighting

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Did She Find a Mythical Creature?

Finally, Asha de Vos and her colleagues got a “a-ha!the gorgeous creature that approached them on February 5, 2017, and felt like they were that much closer to recognizing it. She quickly sent a handful of the photographs to two of her colleagues who are experts on this species, Dr. Salvatore Cerchio and Dr. Robert Brownell. And when we refer to this species, we mean the kind of animal that de Vos thought this thing to be. Not just any aquatic animal was discovered by Asha de Vos; this one was almost mythological.

Did She Find A Mythical Creature

Did She Find A Mythical Creature

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