Data from: Forgotten Mediterranean calving grounds of gray and North Atlantic right whales: evidence from Roman archaeological records

• Main Authors: Rodrigues, Ana S.L., Charpentier, Anne, Bernal-Casasola, Darío, Gardeisen, Armelle, Nores, Carlos, Pis Millán, José Antonio, McGrath, Krista, Speller, Camilla F., Rodrigues, Ana S. L.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Dryad 2018
• Subjects: Mediterranean; sperm whale; 200 BC - 800 AD; Physeter catodon; Eschrichtius robustus; Antiquity; Atlantic gray whale; collagen fingerprinting (ZooMS); North Atlantic right whale; Eubalaena glacialis; Strait of Gibraltar; Life sciences; medicine and health care; archeo; envir; Catodon; North Atlantic; Sperm whale
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.v2432b2

Right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) were extirpated from the eastern North Atlantic by commercial whaling. Gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus) disappeared from the entire North Atlantic in still-mysterious circumstances. Here we test the hypotheses that both of these species previously occurred in th...