Director of the Marine Mammal Institute at Oregon State University
A Professor of Fisheries and Wildlife, and Oceanography, he is Director of the Marine Mammal Institute at Oregon State University
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Bruce Mate
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The Mysterious Blue Whales Deaths Blue whales can grow to more than one-hundred feet and weigh two-hundred tons, making them larger than any dinosaur discovered. But the largest animals ever to live are now an endangered species . In the past few weeks, three blue whales have turned up dead in the Santa Barbara Channel , and nobody knows how they became so disoriented that they collided with ships.
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