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White killer whale spotted
There have been stories about this white orca whale, but it had never been spotted by scientists before. Now, the nearly mythic white whale was real after all ! Researchers found the white killer whale near Alaska's Aleutian Islands.
Holly Fearnbach, a research biologist with the National Marine Mammal Laboratory in Seattle, said "I had heard about this whale but we had never been able to find it. It was quite neat to find it. When you first looked at it, it was very white."
The whale, which is an adult male about 25 to 30 feet long and an extimated weight upward of 10,000 pounds is not an albino. Some parts of its body showed pigmentation, yellowish or brown and that indicates that it is not a true albino. This might also be the reason it is still alive as true albino's normally do not live long due to health problems.
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