Officials are warning that a North American species of whale is approaching extinction. North Atlantic right whales are an endangered species in "crisis," according to a fact sheet from the NOAA Fisheries Marine Mammal and Sea Turtle Conservation Division, with fewer than 350 individuals and fewer than 70 reproductively active females remaining.

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