In 2006, a farmer in southern Italy noticed several large bones jutting from the muddy bottom of a lake he used to irrigate his fields. It would take him three years of careful water management before scientists could examine what lay beneath. When they did, they uncovered the partial remains of a blue whale—at nearly 85 feet (26 m) long, …
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