Rare White Male Killer Whale Discovered in Russia: Iceberg and Other Albino animals [PHOTOS]

IBTimes Saturday 28th April, 2012

| Apr 28, 2012 02:26 AM EDT A team of Russian scientists has spotted an all-white mature male killer orca known as the Iceberg in the North Pacific, east of the Kamchatka Peninsula near the Commander Islands. The researchers from the universities of Moscow and Saint Petersburg spotted the two-metre (about six feet) dorsal fin break the surface in August 2010. This is the first time that a mature orca has been seen by scientists. The killer wha...

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