A southern right whale swims with its calf near its breeding grounds in the southern Pacific. (University of Auckland tohorā research team, Department of Conservation/)Emma Carroll is a Rutherford Discovery Fellow at the University of Auckland. This story originally featured on The Conversation.After close to a decade of globe-spanning effort, the genome of the southern right whale has been released this week, giving us deeper insights into the histories and recovery of whale populations across the southern hemisphere.Up to 150,000 southern right whales were killed between 1790 and 1980. This whaling drove the global population from perhaps 100,000 to as few as 500 whales in 1920. A century
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