Researchers say species is second-longest living mammal on Earth after bowhead whales
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In 1893, the World’s Fair was getting under way in Chicago, the world’s first number plates appeared on cars in Paris, and Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination would later spark the first world war, spent time hunting kangaroos and emus in the NSW town of Narromine.
Also, according to researchers, up to 10% of southern right whales in existence then could still be swimming the ocean today.
