January 18, 2008
Marine Researchers Track an Elusive Endangered Whale
Data on the North Atlantic right whale may help scientists save the species from extinction
The penultimate resting place for right whale No. 2150, a 30-ton female whose body washed ashore not far from here, is surrounded by a chain-link fence and immersed in a pea-soup fog.
Her bones form an elongated ridge stretching for 45 feet inside the fenced-in boneyard, which is within earshot of the cold waters of the Bay of Fundy, where she was found dead four years ago. Her
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