In this 2019 file photo, scientists are performing a necropsy on an endangered whale that stranded in the Florida Everglades National Park. Federal scientists reported recently that a tiny group of whales in the Gulf of Mexico are a new species rather than Bryde’s whales, as they were previously classified. Scientists say the best population count is 33, but there definitely are fewer than 100 of these whales, now called Rice’s whales. (National Park Service via AP)