A four-flippered striped dolphin was caught off the coast of Taiji, Japan in January 2023—this is the second individual dolphin with hind flippers captured off Taiji, the first being a bottlenose dolphin in 2006.
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Basking shark ontogeny needs a lot more study. Of particular interest to me is the beak-like snout shape in really young individuals, which so far has only been documented in a single paper. This is a juvenile caught in Japan in 1977.
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