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Washington (AFP) - They're one of the most endangered mammals in the world, and a species you may never have even heard of: North Atlantic right whales. American conservationists are hoping a proposed federal rule change to expand speed restrictions for vessels along the US East Coast will save the marine giants, which number fewer than 350, from extinction. Lined up against the proposal are conservative lawmakers who have introduced several bills in Congress that seek to stop President Joe Biden's administration from enacting the amendments. "Sadly, most of the right whales I've seen have be...
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Washington (AFP) - An overwhelming majority of large boats off the US East Coast are speeding through slow-zones designed to protect critically endangered North Atlantic right whales, of which only around 340 remain. That's according to a new analysis of vessel tracking data published Thursday by the nonprofit Oceana, which called for stronger safeguards and greater enforcement to save the species from extinction. "Boats are speeding and whales are dying -- it's that simple," said Oceana's campaign director Gib Brogan. Boat strikes are one of the two leading causes of death for the whale speci...
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Washington (AFP) - A whale skull fossil estimated to be some 12 million years old has been found on a beach in the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, according to a local museum. The discovery was made in October by a Pennsylvania man, Cody Goddard, who was searching for fossils and shark's teeth, the Calvert Marine Museum said in a statement. "It felt like we had won the World Cup of Paleontology!" said Stephen Godfrey, curator of paleontology at the museum in the eastern US state. "We don't yet know what species of Miocene baleen whale this is," he said. "That we will only know once it has been pre...
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