1.   As he gazed at the huge mammal, it suddenly rushed the boat, thrusting and parting the waters like a locomotive.

2.   Being civic-minded militia, they sent a bicyclist to inform the municipality that two huge mammals lay slain in front of the Turkish Embassy.

3.   Nobody much cares about the life styles of the reptiles that dominated the world before the dinosaurs or of the huge extinct mammals that succeeded them.

4.   A baleen whale washed ashore near this North Sea port Saturday, drawing several hundreds of tourists to the beach to catch a glimpse of the huge mammal.

5.   He said, for example, that whale ancestors lived on land and had fur, but evolution carried the huge mammals back to the sea.

6.   Lisbon Port Authority officials were trying to decide Tuesday how to dispose of the huge mammal.

7.   Matilla was part of a team that observed the huge mammal Saturday and attached a telemetry buoy so marine scientists could track it.

8.   The huge mammal has broken vertebrae, an indication it may have had a run-in with a boat, says Gerry Conway of the federal Fisheries Department.