Yet there were no studies of fossils showing how the pygmy whale had evolved, Marx said.
There was one man, a pygmy hunter named Dawi, who could tell him the answer.
They include a giraffe, two lions, four zebras, a rhino and a pygmy hippo.
But this is a pygmy compared with the Zeppelins of old so several other companies have been thinking bigger.
The relatively diminutive pygmy right whale, which grows to just 21 feet long, lives out in the open ocean.
But one day in a Burmese bookstore, he happened upon a book about a pygmy tribe called the Taron.
The WWF wildlife group estimates that fewer than 1, 500 Borneo pygmy elephants exist.
The findings help explain how pygmy whales evolved and may also help shed light on how these ancient "lost" whales lived.
However, the pygmy whales' snouts suggested they were more closely related to the family of whales that includes the bowhead whale.
The London Assembly does little more than vote on the mayor's annual budget a pygmy next to the mighty New York City Council.
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Discount-cigarette billionaire owns land in Texas, New Mexico and Florida, mostly used to propagate rare animal species, like the pygmy hippo and okapi.
But even BP, which is one of the world's biggest companies, is actually a small pygmy compared to the real giants of oil.
Home to orangutans, pygmy elephants and clouded leopards, this northeast region in the state of Sabah is a hotspot for rare and endangered species.
Known for their babyish faces, large ears and long tails, pygmy elephants were found to be a distinct subspecies only in 2003, after DNA testing.
Other images on show include a pygmy seahorse camouflaging itself among coral, a sperm whale investigating the photographer, and a bee-eater bird catching a dragonfly for his mate.
He said there could be fewer than 400 pygmy hogs in the world and all of them are in Assam's Manas national park in the foothills of Bhutan.
This could have sealed the case for the Hobbit as a new species, rather than a modern human pygmy or diseased individual - as some researchers have suggested it is.
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The pygmy whale's skull most closely resembled that of an ancient family of whales called cetotheres that were thought to have gone extinct around 2 million years ago, the researchers found.
To understand how the pygmy whale fit into the lineage of whales, Marx and his colleagues carefully analyzed the skull bones and other fossil fragments from pygmy right whales and several other ancient cetaceans.
The reef has been decimated in parts by dynamite fishing, but you will still find a huge amount of underwater life, with a smorgasbord of cuttlefish, octopus, pygmy seahorse, scorpion fish, clownfish and giant green turtles.
And when the activities on offer include face-to-face encounters with habituated west lowland gorilla families, jungle walks with local Baka (or pygmy) guides and pirogue trips downriver in search of birds and other wildlife, it is hardly a surprise that Odzala has been garnering such attention.
In 1987, Mr. Gilman sent John Lukas, a zoologist who heads White Oak's conservation program, to Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) to work with pygmy tribes to capture an okapi, an extremely rare animal that resembles a cross between a giraffe and a zebra.
He makes "humorous" remarks about Hitler in an effort to ingratiate himself with his new friends -- a ploy that works quite well, actually -- and liberally distributes what he calls "little envelopes of happiness" to smooth the way for his business proposal, a plan to build a match factory staffed by the country's pygmy tribe.
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