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Like a fish out of water...

'Alien beings. Their whole body: every bone, every membrane, every hollow, Part of an enormous ear, Twenty times as sensitive as man's"

Heathcote Williams, "Whale Nation", 1988.

It was the"otherness" of such a mountain of dead flesh that attracted the crowds as if they needed to see with their own eyes the Leviathan even in such as sorry and final state.

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48 millions years of evolution

"This whale, among the English of old vaguely known as the Trumpa whale, and the Physeter whale, and the Anvil Headed whale, is the present Cachalot of the French, and the Pottsfich of the Germans..."

Herman Melville, "Moby Dick, Or the Whale", 1851.

All Cetaceans are marine mammal descendants of land mammals such as the Pakicetus not unlike the dog in this image.

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Call me Ishmael...(Part III)

A man wearing old-time fishermen clothes poses with a 40-foot-long Sperm whale bull that was washed up on the beach at Old Hunstanton, in Norfolk, UK. 26th December 2011.

Digital wet plate.

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Content Published March 14, 2014

Harbour porpoise

Harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) washed up on a Lincolnshire beach. Chapel St. Leonards, Lincolnshire, UK. 17th of January 2012.

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Content Published March 14, 2014

Pectoral fin

Harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) washed up on a Lincolnshire beach. Chapel St. Leonards, Lincolnshire, UK. 17th of January 2012.

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Content Published March 14, 2014

Sperm Whale bull washes up on Norfolk Coast

A 40-foot-long Sperm whale bull was washed up on the beach at Old Hunstanton, in Norfolk, probably due to the fact that there are no squid to sustain this type of whale in the North sea. UK. 26th December 2011

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Sperm Whale bull washes up on Norfolk Coast

A 40-foot-long Sperm whale bull was washed up on the beach at Old Hunstanton, in Norfolk, probably due to the fact that there are no squid to sustain this type of whale in the North sea. UK. 26th December 2011

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Sperm Whale bull washes up on Norfolk Coast

A 40-foot-long Sperm whale bull was washed up on the beach at Old Hunstanton, in Norfolk, probably due to the fact that there are no squid to sustain this type of whale in the North sea. UK. 26th December 2011

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Content Published March 14, 2014

Sperm Whale bull washes up on Norfolk Coast

Under the law of the United Kingdom, whales like this Sperm Whale bull are royal fish, and when stranded on any public beach become the personal property of the monarch as part of her royal prerogative.

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Content Published March 14, 2014

Very like a whale...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Act 3, Scene 2, Page 17:

LORD POLONIUS: My lord, the queen would speak with you, and Presently.

HAMLET: Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel?

LORD POLONIUS: By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed.

HAMLET: Methinks it is like a weasel.

LORD POLONIUS: It is backed like a weasel.

HAMLET: Or like a whale?

LORD POLONIUS: Very like a whale.

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Content Published March 14, 2014

Like a fish out of water...

'Alien beings. Their whole body: every bone, every membrane, every hollow, Part of an enormous ear, Twenty times as sensitive as man's"

Heathcote Williams, "Whale Nation", 1988.

It was the"otherness" of such a mountain of dead flesh that attracted the crowds as if they needed to see with their own eyes the Leviathan even in such as sorry and final state

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Content Published March 14, 2014

The Ivory thief

A man desecrates the carcass of a Sperm Whale bull ax in had hacking off the teeth of the whales lower jaw.

Sperm whales have between 18 to 26 teeth on each side of its lower jaw which fit into sockets in the upper jaw. The teeth are cone-shaped and weigh up to 1 kilogram (2.2 lb) each.

The picture was taken in the early hours of the morning of Boxing Day 2011 at Old Hunstanton, in Norfolk, UK on the beach at Old Hunstanton, in Norfolk.

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Album Published March 14, 2014

Like Fish out of water 2012

Pictures of strandings taken in East Anglia and Lincolnshire, Great Britain.

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