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Can Feces Save A Species? Boston Has The World’s Largest Collection Of Right Whale Poop

The Marine Stress and Ocean Health Lab at the New England Aquarium looks like your typical laboratory. It’s full of humming and whirring machines, beakers and test tubes, digital scales and centrifuges. What sets it apart is the freezer. At negative 80 degrees Celsius, it houses the world’s largest collection of right whale poop. Yes, poop. It […]

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NE Aquarium Scientists To Test Rope-Less Gear Made To Reduce Right Whale Entanglements

Scientists at the New England Aquarium will be testing rope-less fishing gear with lobstermen in the Gulf of Maine.

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