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Dead, Frozen Whale Buried at NJ Beach After Removal Proved Too Difficult
A New Jersey beach is the final resting place for a 15-ton whale whose lifeless body washed ashore on Christmas day. State and local officials used heavy equipment to bury the 31-foot male humpback whale on a beach Monday morning. The whale was frozen solid and could not be cut into pieces for removal, as is commonly done in other…
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Pod of Humpback Whales Surprise Dad and Daughter
A father and daughter were fishing off the coast of Newfoundland in Canada when two whales jumped out of the water nearby.
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Whales Spotted Off the Coast of Massachusetts
NBC10 Boston photographer Mark Garfinkel captured amazing images of two or three North Atlantic right whales feeding near Egg Rock off the coast of Nahant, Massachusetts. -
New England Aquarium Debuts Improved Right Whale Catalog
An aquarium in Boston has upgraded its directory of more than a million images of one of the world’s rarest whales. The New England Aquarium keeps a database of photographs and physical details called the North Atlantic Right Whale Catalog. There are only about 400 of the whales left in the world. The catalog has images of more than 750…
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‘Ship Strikes' Killing Whales Despite Govt. Program to Slow Down Vessels
Ships are hitting and killing whales off the California coast at some of the highest rates in more than a decade, according to data obtained and tabulated by the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit. The spike in ‘ship strikes’ comes despite a 5-year government initiative to slow down vessels as they make their way into San Francisco Bay.
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Counting Whales From Space Pitched as Key to Saving Them
An aquarium and an engineering firm in Massachusetts are partnering on a project to better protect whales by monitoring them from space. New England Aquarium of Boston and Draper of Cambridge say whale conservation needs new, higher-tech solutions to protect whales from extinction. So, the pair are working together using data from sources such as satellites, sonar and radar to…