CAPE COD, Mass. – A rare sighting was captured in the Cape Cod Bay in Massachusetts. Video shows a North Atlantic right whale and her calf swimming side by side.
The pair was seen on March 27.
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution posted footage of the moment. It showed a right whale called Spindle feeding and swimming with her calf.
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The NOAA Fisheries says the critically-endangered species usually travels the New England coast in the spring.
A fourth of the total population was spotted off the coast of Cape Cod last month, the Boston Globe reported.
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