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Space Daily · Sunday, 28 June 2026
For decades, the clean version of humpback whale migration was easy to describe. The whales fed in cold, productive southern waters, then travelled north to warmer tropical and subtropical waters where mating, birth and early maternal care were assumed to bel…
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