Scientists photographed the huge mammal 250 miles off the Cornish coast, in the first sighting in English waters since whalers nearly wiped them out
4:30PM BST 02 Sep 2015
For years they had been hunted to near-extinction by the whalers of the north-east Atlantic greedy for their valuable blubber.
But in a measure of their recovery a blue whale has been spotted some 250 miles off the coast of Cornwall.
The rare sighting of the world's largest animal has stunned and delighted marine biologists in equal measure.
A scientific expedition caught the mammal on camera by chance, capturing what they describe as "conclusive" photographs of the majestic creature.
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