Is all their illegal whaling some sort of blackmail for the Sea Gods? “Send them up or we’ll kill another one!” “…Onegai.“

Daily Mail - Rare primitive shark captured on film

A species of shark rarely seen alive because its natural habitat is 600 metres (2,000 ft) or more under the sea was captured on film by staff at a Japanese marine park this week.

Previously: a giant squid and a Christmas squid.

Update (1.26):

Speak of the devil.

BBC - UK in whaling recruitment drive

The arguments contained in the brochure were dismissed by Japan’s deputy whaling commissioner Joji Morishita.

“It is always depressing to see the same old anti-whaling rhetoric,” he told the BBC News website.

“Its basic position is that commercial whaling automatically means extinction. As we want everlasting whaling, which is totally different from the past industrial whaling of western countries which regarded whales only as an exhaustive industrial material, we would avoid extinction at any cost.”

Date: Jan 24th, 2007 · Comments RSS · Tags: Science and Nature