Common minke whale common minke whale was recognized as a separate species from the Antarctic minke whale based on mitochondrial DNA testing. This testing also confirmed that the Antarctic minke whale is the closest relative of the common minke whale, thus confirming the validity of the minke whale clade. Common and Antarctic minke whales diverged from each other in the Southern Hemisphere 4.7 million years ago, during a prolonged period of global warming in the early Pliocene which disrupted the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and created local pockets of upwelling, facilitating speciation by fragmenting populations. The radiation of common minke whales into the Northern
Creature Catalogue "D&D" game, no matter what level your characters are ... if you've ever felt constrained by the limited range of "D&D" monsters, then this book is for you." Creature Catalogue Creature Catalogue is a supplement for Basic "Dungeons & Dragons" first released in 1986, and updated in 1993. The "Creature Catalogue" is a supplement which describes over 200 monsters, most of which had been collected from "D&D" rules and modules, as well as 80 new monsters which had never been printed before; each monster is illustrated and indexed by habitat. In "Creature Catalogue" is collected all the creatures first presented