The surprising culprit limiting the abundance of Earth’s largest land animals
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Bong Noren
December 9, 2025
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A Baird’s beaked whale off the Commander Islands. Two teeth can be seen in the lower jar. The body is covered by scars from fights with other beaked whales. Credit: Olga Filatova, University of Southern Denmark. Some animals live in such remote and inaccessible regions of the globe that it is nearly impossible to study
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