AGE-OLD WHALES
CENTURIES IN “COED STORAGE” MOSCOW, Sept. 12. Dogs iii tlie Yahnal Peninsula in the Arctic lire being fed on the blubber of prehistoric whales, dead for many thou sands of years. A zoological research parry came upon Samoycdc unlives feeding their dogs on the bliihlief of these whales, which (hey had found embedded in hanks along the sea coast and the shores of small rivers. The whales’ bodies are found with not only the blubber ami meat- midest-royed, Imt,. in many eases, also the actual skin itself in a good state of preservation. There appeared to he a great, number of these “chilled monsters’’ buried in high hanks, often far above the present sealevel.
Opposite Novnva Zomlvn Island (Nova Zambia), the Yalmnl peninsula forms the western roast of the estuary of the River Ob—latitude 70 North, longitude 70 East.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18249, 18 November 1933, Page 3
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