About a wondrous fish

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About a wondrous fish

that was found in East Anglia in 2011

sperm strandings uk whale

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, UK. 26th December 2011
Sperm Whale bull washes up on Norfolk Coast

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 Hunstan…
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, UK. 26th December 2011
Sperm Whale bull washes up on Norfolk Coast

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 Hunstan…
Like a fish out of water II...

'Alien beings. Their whole body: every bone, every membrane, every hollow, Part of an enormous ear, Twenty times as sensitive as…
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, UK. 26th December 2011
Caudal fin detail of a stranded Sperm Whale bull

A 40-foot-long Sperm whale bull was washed up on the beach at Old Hunstanton, in Norfolk, UK. 26th December 2011.
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 Hunstan…
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 bet…
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…
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. H…
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 beco…
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 th…
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…
Macerated skin

"The whale's insulating wet-suits hacked off in flensing ships In untold billions: For fuel;" Heathcote Williams, "Whale Nation",…