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‘Unlike anything we’d ever seen’: Couple spots North Atlantic right whale off Blackhead Cove, N.L.

Heather MacAuley and Chris Murphy recently stumbled across a rare North Atlantic right whale in the water off Blackhead Cove, marking a sighting of a critically endangered species of whale with only an estimated 384 individuals remaining.

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‘Unlike anything we’d ever seen’: Couple spots North Atlantic right whale off Blackhead Cove, N.L.
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