Don't call it a wholphin: first sighting of rare whale-dolphin hybrid
by Associated Press from Environment | The Guardian on (#3VX7H)
Scientists have identified a creature that they believe to be a hybrid of a melon-headed whale and a rough-toothed dolphin
Scientists are touting the first sighting of a hybrid between a melon-headed whale and a rough-toothed dolphin in the ocean off Hawaii. But don't call it a "wholphin," they say.
The melon-headed whale is one of the various species that's called a whale but is technically a dolphin.
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