These Bizarre Phenomenons Prove That Reality Is Stranger Than Fiction

Wholphins

It's a bird. It's a plane. No, it's a... wholphin? In 1985, a bottlenose dolphin gave birth to a miraculous creature. The world's first "wholphin," named Kekaimalu, is the only living hybrid of a bottlenose dolphin and a false killer whale. Before Kekaimalu, it was assumed that the two species were unable to mate—but Punahele, a 6-foot dolphin, and I'anui, a 14-foot false killer whale, somehow managed to defy the odds.

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