Brydeâs Whale Or Riceâs Whale
Scientists Identify New Whale Species By Justin Hobbs | February 11, 2021 at 7:02 PM EST - Updated February 11 at 7:05 PM
Gulf of Mexico (WWSB) -âWhaleâ this has become quite the discovery. The 2019 38-foot male Brydeâs whale, that washed up in Sandy Key, was not exactly a Brydeâs whale. A decade of research has now led to the discovery of a new species of whale, that is right here in The Gulf of Mexico. This new species of whale may be one of the worlds most critically endangered. In 2019, when this whale washed up in the Florida Everglades, it was believed that it was a Brydeâs whale; however, there was already suspicion that The Gulfâs Brydeâs whale may not be a Brydeâs after all. The suspicion came about after a wash up in Fort Desoto in 2009. Ten years later, another wash up in The Everglades pushed researches to perform a necropsy on the whale and what they found is that it is indeed a dif