California blue whales recover to historical levels

Mongabay
By Rhett ButlerSep 5, 2014, 5:13 pm90 pts
The population of blue whales in the Eastern Pacific has recovered to 97 percent of historic levels decades after Earth's largest animal was nearly driven to extinction in some places due to the whaling industry, reports a new study published in the journal, Marine Mammal Science.

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