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Update 2.01.2012
A man trying to sell the teeth and jaw bone of the dead sperm whale has been warned he faces prosecution after advertising the teeth and jaw for sale on Facebook. Endangered sperm whales are protected under the International Whaling Commission and trading in their ivory teeth is also banned under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.
Sperm whale washes up on East Anglian beach
A 40ft sperm whale recently washed up dead on an East Anglian beach in the UK with what appeared to be a large gash in its stomach.
The sand around its tail fluke did not appear disturbed, suggesting the creature was dead before the tide carried it onto the sands at Old Hunstanton, Norfolk. It may have been the same whale which had been seen dead on the RAF's bombing range on the other side of the estuary, at Holbeach, weeks before.
Tissue samples were taken from the whale and the animal was left to be carried away by the tide to decompose naturally.
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