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IMAGE: Catalog #3522 swims off the coast of Georgia in 2006 with fresh propeller cuts on his back.
He was never seen again and is presumed dead due to these injuries. view more
Credit: New England Aquarium, collected under NOAA Permit #655-1652-01
A study co-authored by scientists at the New England Aquarium has found that known deaths of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales represent a fraction of the true death toll. This comes as the death of a calf and recent sightings of entangled right whales off the southeastern United States raise alarm.
The study, published this month in