Whale sightings off Chile raise hope
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 13:51
in Earth & Climate
Whales appear to be making a comeback in the waters where they were once hunted to near extinction. From the earliest days of exploration, mariners in Chile's cool southern waters marveled at the abundance of whales. A Jesuit naturalist wrote of the sea "boiling" with the spouts of the leviathans.