Advertisement

Discovery of new, very rare whale species ‘really a big deal’

Discovery of new, very rare whale species ‘really a big deal’

When the remains of an unidentified whale washed ashore on a tiny Alaskan island in the Bering Sea in June 2014, a scientific search was launched to learn its identity, initially thought to be a Baird’s beaked whale. After more than two years of detective work, an international team of scientists has determined that the