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NOAA's final 2026 calving figure of 23 sits inside a 380-whale population, paired with the disentanglement of 'Division' from ghost gear traced to a Canadian fisherman lost in 2020.
At least ten researchers tied to nuclear and aerospace work are dead or missing, and the federal government has finally acknowledged a single coordinated review.
What the obituaries have surfaced since Tuesday is less the zoologist than the surrealist, the curator, and the man who taught a generation to look at humans as animals.