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A gray whale extinct from the Atlantic for more than 200 years was spotted off the New England coast last week in an “incredibly rare event,” the New England Aquarium said.
The gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus), [1] also known as the grey whale, [5] is a baleen whale that migrates between feeding and breeding grounds yearly. It reaches a length of 14.9 meters (49 ft), a weight of up to 41 tonnes (90,000 lb) and lives between 55 and 70 years, although one female was estimated to be 75–80 years of age.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) notes that the Atlantic population of gray whales was made extinct around the turn of the eighteenth century. [1] Examination of remains found in England and Sweden found evidence of a separate Atlantic population of gray whales existing up until 1675. [2]
The beautiful Gray Whale has been extinct from the Atlantic Ocean since the 1700’s, but there are still estimated to be around 20,000 of these creatures swimming the Pacific Ocean.
Gray whales have "been extinct in the Atlantic for more than 200 years," according to the New England Aquarium. Gray whales used to be common throughout the Northern Hemisphere.
Atlantic gray whale Population of the gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) North Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea: Last recorded in 1760. The same species survives on the Pacific Ocean. [43] A single individual, presumably dispersed over the Arctic, was observed off Florida in 2023 and Nantucket, Massachusetts in 2024. [44]
The Atlantic population of gray whales was not so fortunate as their Pacific cousins, hunted to extinction by the 18th century. The last historical report aquarium scientists were able to find of ...
[23] [30] The Atlantic gray whale, last sighted in 1740, is now extinct due to European and Native American whaling. [31] [32] Since the 1960s the global population of monk seals has been rapidly declining. The Hawaiian and Mediterranean monk seals are considered to be one of the most endangered marine mammals on the planet, according to the ...