337 Whales Beached in Largest Stranding Ever

Puerto Natales, Patagonia, Chile. Photo source: ©© Joe Foley

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Scientists made a startling discovery on an observation flight over a remote fjord in southern Chile’s Patagonia: 337 dead whales. That is the biggest single whale stranding event known to science…

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