{"id":60201,"date":"2022-11-17T10:10:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T15:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baleinesendirect.org\/un-fossile-sous-la-loupe\/"},"modified":"2022-11-28T14:30:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T19:30:18","slug":"un-fossile-sous-la-loupe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baleinesendirect.org\/en\/un-fossile-sous-la-loupe\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fossil Under the Magnifying Glass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty years ago, the <a href=\"https:\/\/royalsocietypublishing.org\/doi\/10.1098\/rsos.220441\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fossil<\/a> of an Atlantic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca\/en\/article\/grey-whale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">grey whale<\/a> (<em>Eschrichtius robustus<\/em>) was misidentified as a humpback whale. The latter was discovered in the 1970s on a beach in North Carolina.\u00a0 Grey whale skeletons are extremely rare and always incomplete, so identifying them is a daunting task. But what makes this discovery so special?<\/p>\n<p>The Atlantic grey whale population has been extinct since the early 1700s. Only three other populations of this species remain today, all of which are found in the Pacific Ocean. The extinction or extirpation of a species creates imbalances in the ecosystem that can sometimes be observed for longer than one might expect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty years ago, the fossil of an Atlantic grey whale (Eschrichtius robustus) was misidentified as a humpback whale. The latter was discovered in the 1970s on a beach in North Carolina.\u00a0 Grey whale skeletons are extremely rare and always incomplete, so identifying them is a daunting task. But what makes this discovery so special? 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