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Pygmy blue whale beaches and dies off NT coast in historic first sighting

A pygmy blue whale has died after becoming stranded off the coast of Groote Eylandt in what researchers believe is the first time the species has ever been sighted in the Gulf of Carpentaria.

Pygmy blue whale beaches and dies off NT coast in historic first sighting

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