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Migaloo jumping photographed by Jonas Liebschner onboard Whale Watching Sydney Part of a Song by Migaloo recorded in 1998. Migaloo ("whitefella" in some Aboriginal languages) is an all-white humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) that was first sighted on the 28 June 1991 at the Australian east coast near Byron Bay. [1]
Fin whales in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, off the coast of Labrador. The fin whale is more prevalent in high-latitude regions than throughout the tropics.However, in the autumn, Northern Atlantic fin whale populations off the coast of Labrador appear to migrate to the Caribbean islands, passing through Bermuda [2] [3]
One of the world's rarest sea creatures, Migaloo the white humpback whale (his name is an Aboriginal word for "white fella") was spotted off the eastern coast of Australia on June 19. According to ...
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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 30 January 2025. Large baleen whale species Humpback whale Temporal range: 7.2–0 Ma Pre๊ ๊ O S D C P T J K Pg N Late Miocene – Recent Size compared to an average human Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) CITES Appendix I (CITES) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom ...
A unique and diverse albeit phylogenetically restricted mammal fauna [note 1] is known from the Caribbean region. The region—specifically, all islands in the Caribbean Sea (except for small islets close to the continental mainland) and the Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands, and Barbados, which are not in the Caribbean Sea but biogeographically belong to the same Caribbean bioregion—has ...
A male humpback has completed the longest recorded migration for a whale from South America to Africa. Scientists explain why this journey is so unusual. Male humpback whale makes record-breaking ...
Region Latin America and the Caribbean The El Vizcaíno Biosphere Reserve , created in 1988, [ 1 ] is located in Mulegé Municipality in northern Baja California Sur , at the center of the Baja California Peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of California .