Enormous rare creature with stocky black body spotted off NJ coast

Enormous rare creature with stocky black body spotted off NJ coast

By Natalie Demaree

Source: islandpacket

11/18/2024

During a three-hour-long watch for whales, dolphins and birds, wildlife experts off the coast of New Jersey made a tremendous observation. They spotted a very rare North Atlantic Right Whale, an endangered species that has about 370 individuals in existence, researchers said.

“We were extremely fortunate to observe a critically endangered North Atlantic Right Whale off our coast,” the Cape May Whale Watch and Research Center said in a Nov. 17 Facebook post.

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