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11915
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Reportedly pushed ashore by porpoises, a female sperm whale, measuring 54 feet 2 inches in length, by 33 feet in circumference, and weighing approximately fifty tons, arrived on Wrightsville Beach on April 5th, 1928. Remaining on the beach for nine subsequent days due to bad weather and failed removal attempts, the beached whale drew in more tourism than any other single event in Wilmington's history. The bones of the whale were cleaned, preserved, and taken to the North Carolina Museum of Natural History for display.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 31 Issue 13, Nov 1963, p11-12, il
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15383
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Prehistoric North Carolina looked vastly different compared to the contemporary landscape. Mountains near Raleigh would have been much taller than western Carolina's peaks and the eastern portion of the state would have been completely submerged. Evidence of this comes from excavated whale skeletons found in Miocene sediments in Edgecombe, Halifax, and Northampton. Students from University of North Carolina's Geology Department dug whale remains from the Miocene strata near Tarboro in 1934.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 3 Issue 11, Aug 1935, p2, il
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28417
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Killer whales (Orcinus orca) were first reported off North Carolina in 1709, and the most recent sighting was in the spring of 2011. Orcas are most frequently reported from the waters off the Outer Banks from Cape Lookout north to the Virginia border.
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35995
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Dr. James Mead of the Smithsonian Institute was on hand to help answer this question. The creatures that helped determine the intelligence level of marine life included beaked whales, porpoises, and bottle-nosed dolphins. As for the criteria used to determine intelligence level, if communication was a criterion, then the answer was affirmative.
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Sea Chest (NoCar F 262 D2 S42), Vol. 4 Issue 3, Spring 1978, p8-15
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36163
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In the briny deep of the Outer Banks and waterways such as streams was a diversity of tropic and cool water life. This diversity’s attribution was in part to the Labrador Current and Gulf Stream. Displaying the diversity were the ocean’s sand tiger sharks and nettle jellyfish, the river’s largemouth bass and waterdog.