Right whales in the midst of a revival

March 17, 2013 — North Atlantic right whales, once the focus of dire extinction talk, have rebounded in recent years, but the once-hunted animals now face new threats

Twelve miles off Provincetown — The dark waters began to roil. Two 70-ton leviathans emerged from the depths of Cape Cod Bay then slipped back into the sea. Scientists in a nearby boat tracked their “fluke prints” — the surface sheen created from whale tail underwater flicks — but soon lost the watery trail.

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