The humpback that washed up dead in Long Beach this week has been identified as NYC0393, a playful and spirited cetacean who had become familiar to whale watchers last summer for her acrobatic ...

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A humpback whale (not the one from the study) near the California coast. © Robert Schwemmer/NOAA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons In 2013, photographers ...