Posted on 03/07/2024 5:47:33 AM PST by Red Badger
The whale was spotted 30 miles south of the Massachusetts island Friday diving and resurfacing, appearing to feed. Scientists say climate change may be why the species has reappeared.
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A gray whale south of Nantucket, Mass., on Friday.New England Aquarium
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A gray whale extinct from the Atlantic for more than 200 years was spotted off New England last week in an “incredibly rare event,” the New England Aquarium said.
The whale was spotted Friday 30 miles south of Nantucket, Massachusetts, diving and resurfacing, appearing to feed, the aquarium said in a news release.
The aquarium’s aerial survey team circled the whale’s area for about 45 minutes and took photos, and it later confirmed it was indeed a rare gray whale.
“My brain was trying to process what I was seeing, because this animal was something that should not really exist in these waters,” research technician Kate Laemmle, who was in the survey plane, said in a statement. “We were laughing because of how wild and exciting this was — to see an animal that disappeared from the Atlantic hundreds of years ago!”
Gray whales, which lack dorsal fins, have mottled grey and white skin, dorsal humps and pronounced ridges and are usually found in the North Pacific Ocean.
The species had disappeared from the Atlantic Ocean by the 18th century, in part because of whaling, the aquarium said. However, five have been observed in the Atlantic and Mediterranean waters in the last 15 years, including a sighting in December off Florida.
The aquarium said scientists believe the gray whale they spotted is the same one sighted in Florida late last year.
So why are the sightings happening now? Scientists say climate change plays a part.
"The Northwest Passage, which connects the Atlantic and Pacific through the Arctic Ocean in Canada, has regularly been ice-free in the summertime in recent years, partly due to rising global temperatures," the aquarium said.
Without the sea ice that usually limits the range of gray whales, they can "potentially travel the Passage in the summer, something that wouldn’t have been possible in the previous century," the release said.
Orla O’Brien, an associate research scientist in the aquarium's Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life who flies aerial surveys, said in a statement: “These sightings of gray whales in the Atlantic serve as a reminder of how quickly marine species respond to climate change, given the chance.”
There was a grey whale near Nantucket,
who kept all his chum in a bucket...
(sorry, couldn’t resist). :P
Quick, put some windmills on that water to force it to die on land!
Quick, put up a wind farm so it can be slaughtered.
Clowns.
“..Last week it was GAY WHALES, Now this...”
And....and....EVERYTHING is now due to “climate change”....even the “gay whales”.
The whole insanity of the LGBTQ is due to “climate change”.....LMAO...
climate change is responsible for everything from acne to zits..................
GMTA!....................
The next step will tell us that it was from "that spot" and climate change forced it to be found in "this spot". Scientists no longer use "Scientific Methods"....they use "Political Methods".
I guess the article has already concluded that.
“Scientists say climate change may be why the species has reappeared.”
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The article says, “The species had disappeared from the Atlantic Ocean by the 18th century, in part because of whaling.”
Let’s see...it disappeared because of whaling. But, there’s been a moratorium on whaling since 1982 which has restored the gray whales, according to the IWC.
Yet we read this BS about the climate hoax.
Notice the hyperthreatening tone of the headline and article. The Gray Whale Extincton in the Atlantic... for two hundred years....
Crock of BS is exposed when they go on to write, Rarely seen in the Atlantic....
They exist is other areas of the world. Eventually whatever swims will get around the seven seas and explore at some point if they can take the climate. Whales seem to travel thousands of miles.
Maybe the Magnetic North has moved causing migration patterns. Your children will have to use a scale on their compass when out hiking as Magnetic North shifts more degrees. Of course they start to come with an underlay or a second ring to compensate for those added degrees.
Is the earth’s inner core, moltent and sloshing around? Maybe there are enough of the whales that they are finally spreading out of their so called extinction pattern into a wider range of open waters in search of food.
Wow, climate change is magical. It can make extinct species come back to life.
Now, that’s some parallel thinking!
Any mention of Nantucket is an automatic trigger for limericks.
Climate change causes unextinction too.
So does this mean the left hates whales now?
I always thought they loved whales.
Never can keep up with these lunatics.
mere seconds!
All the compass makers would need to do is add a series of dots on the outer scale to mark off the declination for different latitudes..............
Was it a relative of Gerald Nadler?
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