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  1. One of world's rarest #whales sighted off California coast phys.org/news/2024-05-world-ra

    "a critically #endangered #NorthPacificRightWhale was spotted off the #MarinCounty coast, thrilling #scientists... only ~30 #animals are thought to survive... The International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling banned the hunting of #RightWhales in the North #Pacific in 1937, and their numbers began to climb... But illegal #Soviet #whaling in the 1960s again pushed the species toward #extinction"