Fighting back from extinction, New Zealand right whale is returning home
Monday, June 27, 2011 - 10:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
After being hunted to local extinction more than a century ago and unable to remember their ancestral calving grounds, the southern right whales of mainland New Zealand are coming home. A new study has shown for the first time that whales from a small surviving population around remote, sub-Antarctic islands have found their way back to the New Zealand mainland.