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Dozens of small, black whales lying dead on the shore or in the shallows.

Bowhead are beamy black whales, the size of a school bus and a half at most, with a characteristic downturned jaw.

At dawn, when the sparkling black whale dove back into the sea, the whaleman released his harpoons.

These could be the remains of a small, rarely seen black whale known as karasu, or raven, among Japanese sailors.

The testing shows the black whales, with bulbous heads and beaks like porpoises, are not dwarf varieties of more common Baird's beaked whales, a slate-gray animal.