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Roger Payne, Biologist Who Discovered Whales Could Sing, Dead At 88

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Roger Payne, a biologist whose work with whales spilled over into the music world, has died. The New York Times reports that Payne, who discovered that whales can sing and worked tirelessly for their preservation, passed away Saturday from metastatic squamous cell carcinoma. He was 88.

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