Washington Post: Normally for a few days in spring, beachgoers on this hook of land stretching into Cape Cod Bay witness one of the rarest scenes in the animal kingdom: dozens of surface-skimming North Atlantic right whales, lumbering just a few hundred yards from shore. But that rite of spring was upended this year. The critically endangered animals, which usually arrive in late March or early April to graze on shrimplike plankton, began arriving before Christmas, as water temperatures hovered several degrees above...
URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/scientist-worrry-that-warming-seas-may-be-harming-the-endangered-right-whale/2012/04/30/gIQA1wREsT_story.html
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