DNA analysis reveals size of past whale populations

Genetics can tell us what the oceans looked like in bygone eras.

The Pacific Ocean may have once teemed with three to five times as many grey whales as live there today, according to a genetic study led by researchers at Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove, California.

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DNA analysis reveals size of past whale populations

Genetics can tell us what the oceans looked like in bygone eras.

The Pacific Ocean may have once teemed with three to five times as many grey whales as live there today, according to a genetic study led by researchers at Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove, California.

Read the story here.

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