It was discovered in 2021 that they were a separate species. The whales had been observed there since the 1960s. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/southeast/marin

It was discovered in 2021 that they were a separate species. The whales had been observed there since the 1960s. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/southeast/marine-mammal-protection/how-gulf-mexico-brydes-whale-became-rices-whale https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/southeast/marine-mammal-prote...