Pandemic hit the pause button on the discoveries of new species

Mongabay
Mar 16, 2022, 8:02 pm180 pts
In November 2011, when a pregnant beaked whale drifted ashore on New Zealand’s Waiatoto Spit, Ramari Stewart, an Indigenous whale watcher, noticed that the whale looked slightly different to those usually stranded. It measured about 5 meters (17 feet) long, and after its skeleton was prepared and featured in…

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