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Sculptors prepare cast of blue whale's body
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Making a Whale Cast

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The bowhead whale has a massive, bow-shaped skull.
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Bowhead Whales

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an elephant seal with a tracker
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Citizens of the High Seas

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A fox explores a tide pool.
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Fox at the Tide Pools

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Since 1987, researchers have been tracking Phoenix.
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Meet Phoenix—One of about 450 remaining North Atlantic Right Whales

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A right whale breaches, lifting its huge body out of the water.
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North Atlantic Right Whale

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A map showing different refuge and conservation areas.
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Vaquita Refuge

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A North Atlantic right whale with a deep wound caused by entanglement in fishing gear floats at the surface in the Bay of Fundy.
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Wounded North Atlantic Right Whale

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A right whale breaches, lifting its huge body out of the water.
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North Atlantic Right Whale Breaching

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A graph showing the population decline of vaquitas from 1997 to 2019. In 1997, there were 567 vaquitas. In 2012, there were 200. By 2014 there were fewer than 100, and by 2019 there was an estimated 6 to 9 vaquitas left.
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A Population in Decline

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A right whale opens wide, revealing huge plates of baleen hanging from its upper jaw.
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Right Whale Baleen

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A life-size, meticulously detailed model of the North Atlantic right whale Phoenix hangs in the Smithsonian’s Sant Ocean Hall in the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC.
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Model of Phoenix

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