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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.
In last 15 years, five gray whale sightings in Atlantic. Over the last 15 years, New England Aquarium scientists said there have been five gray whale sightings in the Atlantic, as well one in the ...
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.
We all know gray whales are huge - they can grow up to 49 feet long and weigh more than 90,000 pounds - and the length of the baleen seen in this video was probably around 18 inches long.
Eschrichtius is a genus of baleen whale containing two species: the gray whale (E. robustus) and the extinct Akishima whale (E. akishimaensis). [2] References
However, the Atlantic population of gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus) became extinct in the 18th century, and the baiji (or Chinese river dolphin, Lipotes vexillifer) was declared "functionally extinct" after an expedition in late 2006 failed to find any in the Yangtze River.
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. Nonetheless ...
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]