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For endangered right whales, getting away from entanglement in fishing gear isn’t enough; females still not breeding afterward

It sounds like an episode of a crime show at sea: In late January 2024, federal regulators learned that a dead female North Atlantic right whale had been spotted near Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. The whale was pulled ashore, where more than 20 U.S. and Canadian scientists gathered to perform a necropsy, or animal autopsy. On… Read More »