Mystery gray whale sighted again off Spain coast (BBC)

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By Matt Walker
Editor, Earth News

A mysterious gray whale sighted off the coast of Israel in the Mediterranean Sea has been seen again off the north east coast of Spain.

The second sighting, made 23 days and 3000km after the first, has continued to perplex whale experts.

Gray whales were thought to be extinct across the Atlantic Ocean, so the appearance of an individual within the Mediterranean Sea was a major surprise.
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That sighting excited and bemused experts: it could either mean that the gray whale had recolonised the Atlantic Ocean, or that a single gray whale had shattered the record for the longest known migration by the species, which usually make a round trip of 15-20,000km each year.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8729000/8729064.stm

[Angry Dragon]

1. Omen.............

[aquart]

2. Fleeing the Gulf?

Can you cross the Atlantic in 50 days if you have fins?

[notesdev]

3. or maybe

the ocean's vast expanses hold all sorts of secrets that we just don't know about

Human beings are pretty damn small compared to the planet... you think our continents are massive, well they are only 30% of the Earth's surface.