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March 18, 2009

Right Whales Swimming

This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features

A century ago only a few hundred right whales survived in the Southern Hemisphere. But international protections are working, and the southern rights' future, says Oregon State University biologist Scott Baker, "looks good."


See more photographs from the October 2008 feature story "Right Whales."

Photograph by Brian Skerry

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