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The Environment Ministry signed a memorandum of understanding Tuesday for the establishment of a monitoring system which warns passing ships if large marine mammals, specifically whales, are on their route.

Scientists said on Aug. 26 they had discovered the 43 million-year-old fossil of a previously unknown amphibious four-legged whale species in Egypt that helps trace the transition of whales from land to sea.

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It will be carried out, although scientists from that country, as well as from all over the world, oppose that idea, because these experiments could seriously injure animals.

A blue whale has turned up in the Red Sea, the long spit of water separating Egypt, Sudan and Eritrea from the Arabian Peninsula.

Federal officials have declared an "unusual mortality event" after finding a high number of dead whales washing ashore on the East coast. Scientists are investigating the cause, which could provide greater insight into larger environmental issues.

Shocking findings by a research conducted in the New Bedford Whaling Museum of Massachusetts  point to the fact that humans killed approximately three million whales in the 20th century.

The rate of extermination shows that between 1960-1992, the same number of whales were killed as those hunted in the 18th and 19th centuries, combined.