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The Death of Balen Whales
In the twentieth century, we killed roughly one and a half, two million balen whales. That is the equivalent weight of about three to four billion people. They don't actually have teeth, but they have these long carotin plates made of the same material as our finger nails and hair. Matt says the destruction of such a vast mass of living creatures had a devastating impact on the ocean environment.