Natural History Wanderings

The New York Times reports

North Atlantic right whales are struggling to survive, and it shows.Most of the 360 or so North Atlantic right whales alive today bear scars from entanglements in fishing gear and collisions with speeding ships and, according to a new study, they are much smaller than they should be.

Read more at On the Verge of Extinction, These Whales Are Also Shrinking – The New York Times