A lucky group of whale watchers recently watched a gray whale calf being birthed off the coast of California. It could be the first time that this incredible phenomenon has ever been caught on camera.
A lucky whale-watching group in Southern California recently got front-row seats to one of the rarest and most miraculous spectacles in nature: the birth of a gray whale calf. A video of the"once-in-a-lifetime sighting" could be the first footage of the species' birth ever recorded, experts suggest.
Image 1 of 3The calf looked"floppy" because gray whales are born with soft flukes, or tails, that take about 24 hours to become rigid, Alisa Schulman-Janiger , a marine biologist with the California Killer Whale Project, told NPR .
People almost never get the chance to witness gray whale births. The new footage could be the only video evidence of this elusive moment in existence.
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