BOSTON – The New England Aquarium says researchers have discovered that a North Atlantic right whale recently sighted in Massachusetts waters is the same individual reported off Ireland last year, an extraordinary connection showing the whale traveled 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean.
The discovery was made during an aerial survey in Massachusetts Bay on November 19th.
Observers from the Center for Coastal Studies sighted a North Atlantic right whale off the coast of Boston that scientists in the New England Aquarium’s Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life confirmed had previously only been seen in Donegal Bay, Ireland, in July 2024, reported by the Irish Whale & Dolphin Group…