Rare beaked whale sighting could be a world first for the species

Mongabay
Jan 14, 2021, 4:05 pm209 pts
On a calm, cloudy morning in May 2019, a lookout on a research vessel lowered his binoculars and shouted, “Beaked whales! Beaked whales!” As lead scientist Massimiliano Rosso recalls it, the research crew sprang into action, focusing nervously on their assigned tasks of photographing the whales, recording…

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